Peter Harries-Jones, “Upside-Down Gods: Gregory Bateson’s World of Difference” (Fordham UP, 2016)
New Books in Systems and Cybernetics
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The Evolution of Redundancy
McCulloch defined redundancy as important for computers. He said it had to involve many memories in a computer network. And this was enormously helpful for the movement of computers those days. The notion of coding underwent a fantastic change. We're now dealing with a system that was coding, if you like, for sets of interrelations in a network. This is what Bateson picked up.
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