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 118
... variable and has a continu- ously variable effect on the fuel supply . In contrast , the house ther- mostat is an on - off mechanism in which temperature causes a thermometer to throw a switch at a certain level . This is the di ...
... variable and has a continu- ously variable effect on the fuel supply . In contrast , the house ther- mostat is an on - off mechanism in which temperature causes a thermometer to throw a switch at a certain level . This is the di ...
Pagina 169
... variable ; that is , it is good for the creature if the given variable is in the middle of its range , not at its maximum or minimum . And because the variables are interconnected in loops and circuits , it follows that any variable ...
... variable ; that is , it is good for the creature if the given variable is in the middle of its range , not at its maximum or minimum . And because the variables are interconnected in loops and circuits , it follows that any variable ...
Pagina 171
... variable . The genetic change presumably shifts only the bias or setting ( see Glos- sary , " Logical Type " ) of the homeostatic control of the phe- notypic variable . d . That with this step from direct control of the pheno- typic ...
... variable . The genetic change presumably shifts only the bias or setting ( see Glos- sary , " Logical Type " ) of the homeostatic control of the phe- notypic variable . d . That with this step from direct control of the pheno- typic ...
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II | 12 |
Multiple Versions of the World | 69 |
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