Bateson, Gregory

Bateson, Gregory. Mind and Nature A Necessary Unity. Bantom Books, Toronto. 1980. 

The division of the perceived universe into parts and wholes is convenient and may be necessary, but no necessity determines how it shall be done." Gregory Bateson ... 

Back in California, Gregory Bateson had maintained the Huxley operation out of the Palo Alto VA hospital. Through LSD experimentation on patients already hospitalized for psychological problems, Bateson established a core of "initiates" into the "psychedelic" Isis Cult. 

Gregory Bateson, Steps to the Ecology of the Mind (New York Chandler, 1972). 

Gregory Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind, Random House, 1972, Part I, "Metalogues". (back)... 

Perceval s Narrative by Gregory Bateson. Stanford University Press, 1961. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. 

Other pronouncements can be cited. Gregory Bateson defines information as a difference that makes a difference if there is no difference, there is no information ... 

The anthropologist Gregory Bateson is the most influential and earliest founder of systems theory in social sciences. In the 1940s he recc nized its application to human societies with their many variables and the flexible, but sustainable, balance that they maintain. Bateson describes a system as any unit containing feedback structure and therefore competent to process information . Thus an open system allows interaction between concepts and materiality, or the subject and the environment, and the abstract and the real. 

Gregory Bateson - Number is Different from Quantity... 

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