
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 Importance of Mind in Ecology
The main similarity is language but this did not make in his view an enormous distinction in which human beings use language and were cognitively superior through the use of language. The mind itself becomes an ecological form if we can hold that conception of the relationship over to then our ecology would be completely different from the ecology that is presented to the world at that time. He was adamant that in coming to this understanding we have to let go of what so much of social science at his time and even now is concerned with which is the notion of power because it will constantly lead you to a discussion of human control of nature.
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