
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 Algorithmic Errors of Evolution
W. Basin was involved in evolution studies even though you do not see him as a normal person. A person quoted in the evolutionary discourse. He was the very, he gave the world the term genetics and he giving the world the homocybers and hephrocybers. So that's one upside down. And then the other upside down is the discussion of evolution. But I don't think the sort of errors that we are going to produce are as catastrophic as I think the algorithmicerrors that we are now capable of doing it.
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