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t included von Foerster, Bateson, Zen philosopher Alan Watts, and dolphin researcher John Lilly convene

s, has to account for the writing of this theory. And even more fascinating, the writer of this theory has to account for her or himself. That year Bateson and Mead increasingly talked about patterns and processes, or acethe pattern that connects.a They called for a new kind of systems ecology in which

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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

Allan Combs, who got me thinking about consciousness in various different ways, at a very early point in my career. I'm very pleased to still count Allan as a friend and sometime collaborator! Fred Abraham as well, for introducing me to the intersection of chaos theory and cognition, with a wonderful

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Allan Combs, who got me thinking about consciousness in various different ways, at a very early point in my career. I’m very pleased to still count Allan as a friend and sometime collaborator! Fred Abraham as well, for introducing me to the intersection of chaos theory and cognition, with a wonderful

Douglas Hofstadter [Hof79, Hof96], in Benjamin Whorf’s [Who64] linguistic philosophy and Gregory Bateson’s [Bat79] systems theory of mind and nature. Bateson spoke of the Metapattern: “that it is pattern which connects.” In Goertzel’s writings on philosophy of mind, an effort has been made to pursue this t

nd Atoms. He is the author of AB, co-author (with Alan Gershenfeld & Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld) of Design

llough wanted to include mind. He turned to cultural anthropologists Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead to make the connection to the social sciences. Bateson in particular was increasingly talking about patterns and processes, or “the pattern that connects.” He called for a new kind of systems ecology in w

d Atoms. He is the author of FAB, co-author (with Alan Gershenfeld & Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld) of Design

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

nd Atoms. He is the author of AB, co-author (with Alan Gershenfeld & Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld) of Design

llough wanted to include mind. He turned to cultural anthropologists Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead to make the connection to the social sciences. Bateson in particular was increasingly talking about patterns and processes, or “the pattern that connects.” He called for a new kind of systems ecology in w

d Atoms. He is the author of FAB, co-author (with Alan Gershenfeld & Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld) of Design

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