
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 Semiotic Interaction
In order to expand this into the animal world he needed another sort of mathematics or some form of rule governed sets of relationships. He found in developing this that he would have to abandon or modify his notion of logical typing and started looking around algebraic topology. In nonlinear order it was a matter of developing some notion of context being around recursive or not linear continuity of events that were carrying a message we expected to reoccur again. The expectancy is the nature of context that we have judged for the interaction between two people.
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