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 124
... action in context and action or behavior which defines context or makes context intelligible . For a long time , I referred to the latter type of communication as metacom- munication , borrowing this term from Whorf . * A function , an ...
... action in context and action or behavior which defines context or makes context intelligible . For a long time , I referred to the latter type of communication as metacom- munication , borrowing this term from Whorf . * A function , an ...
Pagina 149
... action ; it is the name of a frame for action . We may expect , then , that play is not subject to the regular rules of reinforcement . Indeed , anybody who has tried to stop some children playing knows how it feels when his efforts ...
... action ; it is the name of a frame for action . We may expect , then , that play is not subject to the regular rules of reinforcement . Indeed , anybody who has tried to stop some children playing knows how it feels when his efforts ...
Pagina 200
... action of the living creature involves some trial and er- ror , and for any trial to be new , it must be in some degree random . Even if the new action is only a member of some well - explored class of actions , it must still , by its ...
... action of the living creature involves some trial and er- ror , and for any trial to be new , it must be in some degree random . Even if the new action is only a member of some well - explored class of actions , it must still , by its ...
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II | 12 |
Multiple Versions of the World | 69 |
IV | 95 |
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