s dragooned into becoming an agent, initially for Gregory Bateson and John Lilly, whose books I sold quickly, and f

y within that environment.” *> For Wiener, information is a way for the weak to effectively cope with the strong. This viewpoint is also reflected in Gregory Bateson’s definition of information as “a difference that makes a difference,” by which he meant the small difference that makes a big difference. The goal of

s dragooned into becoming an agent, initially for Gregory Bateson and John Lilly, whose books I sold quickly, and f

y within that environment.” *> For Wiener, information is a way for the weak to effectively cope with the strong. This viewpoint is also reflected in Gregory Bateson’s definition of information as “a difference that makes a difference,” by which he meant the small difference that makes a big difference. The goal of

c and strong and weak nuclear forces), and yet it was the physicists that already believed them who designed the machines to demonstrate them. It was Gregory Bateson, Margaret Mead’s houseboy, lover, photographer and social anthropologist who said, “Newton didn’t discover gravity, he invented it.” One college sum

gs of contempo- rary philosophers Daniel Dennett [Den91] and 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 philosoph