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 224
... DAUGHTER : But can you know if it's all tautological ? FATHER : No , of course not . But if the question is once asked , I cannot avoid having an opinion . DAUGHTER : Well , is it ? FATHER : Is it what ? DAUGHTER : Tautological ? FATHER ...
... DAUGHTER : But can you know if it's all tautological ? FATHER : No , of course not . But if the question is once asked , I cannot avoid having an opinion . DAUGHTER : Well , is it ? FATHER : Is it what ? DAUGHTER : Tautological ? FATHER ...
Pagina 225
... DAUGHTER : But that's like having no point - Daddy , is it a sphere ? FATHER : Ah , all right . That will do for a metaphor . A multidimen- sional sphere , perhaps . DAUGHTER : Hmm — a self - healing tautology , which is also a sphere ...
... DAUGHTER : But that's like having no point - Daddy , is it a sphere ? FATHER : Ah , all right . That will do for a metaphor . A multidimen- sional sphere , perhaps . DAUGHTER : Hmm — a self - healing tautology , which is also a sphere ...
Pagina 229
... DAUGHTER : All right . So today how would you answer ? FATHER : And then there's consciousness which I have not touched— or touched only once or twice - in this book . Consciousness and aesthetics are the great untouched questions .
... DAUGHTER : All right . So today how would you answer ? FATHER : And then there's consciousness which I have not touched— or touched only once or twice - in this book . Consciousness and aesthetics are the great untouched questions .
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II | 12 |
Multiple Versions of the World | 69 |
IV | 95 |
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abstract action animal answer appearance become behavior believe called cause Chapter characteristics circuit combined communication comparative complex components connects consider contains context contrast course create creatures DAUGHTER describe determined difference direction effect energy evolution example experience explanation fact FATHER follows formal genetic give given hand happens human ideas important individual interaction internal language learning limited living logical typing look matter mean mental process messages mind move natural necessary never object occur organism pattern perception perhaps phenomena pieces possible present principle problem quantity question random relations relationship seems selection sense sequence sexual reproduction side simple single somatic change sort species step stochastic surely tautology theory things thought tion true turn universe variable whole