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 Epistemic Cut Between the Animal World and the Human World
There is some capacity in the organism to perceive difference that is meaningful to it again inside a particular context and then it adjusts. So you get these cybernetic loops in all kinds of life forms regardless of this notion of consciousness. This has existed in science and I think it's incumbent on us to realize this has gone out until there was a major declaration in 2012 called the Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness.
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