Reboot Business Nora Bateson: Living Systems, Warm Data & the Ecology of Communication
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Jul 29, 2025 
Nora Bateson, a filmmaker and president of the International Bateson Institute, shares her insights on navigating the complexities of our interconnected world. She introduces the concept of 'warm data' and emphasizes the importance of relational approaches in both personal and societal contexts. Bateson critiques reductionist thinking and promotes an 'ecology of communication' as crucial for fostering genuine hope. She highlights how identity and intergenerational practices shape our futures, and urges for more creativity and 'weirdness' in cultural change.
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Meadow Metaphor for Complexity
- Living systems are always moving, shifting, learning, and communicating.
- Understanding life requires grasping the relational conditions shaping behaviors.
Body as a Complex System
- Our body exemplifies a system deeply connected to ancestral and microbial relationships.
- Identity isn't isolated; it's shaped by biological, emotional, social, and cultural interdependencies.
Map Is Not The Territory
- Maps or models of reality are abstractions and not the living territory itself.
- True systemic understanding comes from living and experiencing concepts, not just intellectual knowledge.
