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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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Gregory Bateson: Precursor to Biosemiotics

Bateson was one of the precursors that led to this subject of biosemiotics. He didn't have all the answers, he only prodded the reader to investigate,. But he asks significant questions all the time, and it's the questions that people have picked up. Biosemiotics can now begin to talk about the ultimate dualism. If you want to know what cancer's about, you've got to run with the fact that cancer cells evoke their own little universe out of their general system of co-ordinations within the body. That is the science of cancer at the moment. It's a semiotic approach to cancer. And you can get semiotic

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