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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... logical typing and shall offer a definition of mind very dif- ferent from the notions vaguely held by both Darwin and La- marck . Notably , I shall assume that thought resembles evolution in being a stochastic ( see Glossary ) process ...
... logical typing and shall offer a definition of mind very dif- ferent from the notions vaguely held by both Darwin and La- marck . Notably , I shall assume that thought resembles evolution in being a stochastic ( see Glossary ) process ...
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... typing is essential to human communication . In the absence of the distortions of logical typing , humor would be unnecessary and perhaps could not exist . Even at a very abstract level , phenomena provoked by logical typing have ...
... typing is essential to human communication . In the absence of the distortions of logical typing , humor would be unnecessary and perhaps could not exist . Even at a very abstract level , phenomena provoked by logical typing have ...
Pagina 134
... logical typing . It was noted in Chapter 2 ( section 13 ) that logic is a poor model of cause and effect . I suggest that it is the attempt to deal with life in logical terms and the compulsive nature of that attempt which produce in us ...
... logical typing . It was noted in Chapter 2 ( section 13 ) that logic is a poor model of cause and effect . I suggest that it is the attempt to deal with life in logical terms and the compulsive nature of that attempt which produce in us ...
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II | 12 |
Multiple Versions of the World | 69 |
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