Mind and Nature: A Necessary UnityBantam Books, 1988 - 255 pagina's A celebratory trade paper edition of a mass market classic of contemporary thought in which Bateson exhorts us to learn to "think as Nature thinks" if we are to live in harmony on this planet. |
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Pagina 83
... Samuel Butler ( in More Notebooks of Samuel Butler , edited by Festing Jones ) makes a similar point in discussing parthenogenesis . He argues that as dreams are to thought , so parthenogenesis is to sexual reproduction . Thought is ...
... Samuel Butler ( in More Notebooks of Samuel Butler , edited by Festing Jones ) makes a similar point in discussing parthenogenesis . He argues that as dreams are to thought , so parthenogenesis is to sexual reproduction . Thought is ...
Pagina 99
... Samuel Butler , to whom I have owed much pleasure and insight , and , more recently , Teilhard de Chardin , have proposed theories of evolution which assume some mental striving to be characteristic of the smallest atomies . As I see it ...
... Samuel Butler , to whom I have owed much pleasure and insight , and , more recently , Teilhard de Chardin , have proposed theories of evolution which assume some mental striving to be characteristic of the smallest atomies . As I see it ...
Pagina 219
... Samuel Butler's famous jest that the hen is an egg's way of making another egg should be corrected to say that the hen's later success in raising a family is the test of whether the egg from which she hatched was really a good egg . If ...
... Samuel Butler's famous jest that the hen is an egg's way of making another egg should be corrected to say that the hen's later success in raising a family is the test of whether the egg from which she hatched was really a good egg . If ...
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II | 12 |
Multiple Versions of the World | 69 |
IV | 95 |
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