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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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New Books in Systems and Cybernetics is a podcast channel of the New Books Network. This week, Tom Schult talks with Peter Harry's Jones about his new book on polymath Gregory Bateson. In our wide-ranging conversation, Harry's Jones warns us of the perils of a strictly algorithmic world without mind. He also details Bateson's intellectual tussle with Bertrand Russell's theory of logical types.

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