Anthony Chaney, “Runaway: Gregory Bateson, the Double Bind, and the Rise of Ecological Consciousness” (UNC Press, 2017)
New Books in Systems and Cybernetics
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The Problem With Human Agency
"We don't really have a possibility of knowing what the outcome will be to the actions that we begin," he says. "That's the ancient problem with human agency." He is basically saying that we're part of a system and so when we take actions for our own purposes, then we are acting in error in some sense".
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