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postmodern thinking abound. Yet few outside the =elatively small circle of avant-garde thinkers know about him or his =ork. There is valid reason. Bateson is not very accessible. His major book, =teps to an Ecology of Mind, is just being published. It is a collection =f essays he has written over a thi

ly small circle of avant-garde thinkers know about him or his =ork. There is valid reason. Bateson is not very accessible. His major book, =teps to an Ecology of Mind, is just being published. It is a collection =f essays he has written over a thirty-five-year period. Bateson begins lecturing in the conference ro

ly in the body but also in pathways outside the body, and there is a larger Mind, of which the individual mind is only a subsystem. This larger Mind, Bateson holds, is comparable to God, and is perhaps what some people mean by “God,” but it is still immanent in the total interconnected social system and pl

Mary Catherine Bateson, 1999 foreword to Gregory Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972): xi. %? Steps to an Ecology of Mind, p. 452. 3 Tbid., pp. 467-8. 179 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016982 movements of life partnered with an electro-mechanical and -magnetic technosphere. Life,

ly in the body but also in pathways outside the body, and there is a larger Mind, of which the individual mind is only a subsystem. This larger Mind, Bateson holds, is comparable to God, and is perhaps what some people mean by “God,” but it is still immanent in the total interconnected social system and pl

Mary Catherine Bateson, 1999 foreword to Gregory Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972): xi. %? Steps to an Ecology of Mind, p. 452. 3 Tbid., pp. 467-8. 179 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016399 movements of life partnered with an electro-mechanical and -magnetic technosphere. Life,