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Peter Harries-Jones, “Upside-Down Gods: Gregory Bateson’s World of Difference” (Fordham UP, 2016)

Oct 4, 2018
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
The Anthropology of Gregory Bateson
02:10 • 4min
3
The Importance of Interactive Reflection in Communication
06:18 • 5min
4
Upside Down Gods, Gregory Bison's World of Difference
10:53 • 3min
5
The Algorithmic Errors of Evolution
14:06 • 4min
6
The Revision of Mind
18:11 • 4min
7
The Concept of Context and the Turning of Information Theory Upside Down
22:23 • 5min
8
The Evolution of Semiotic Interaction
27:18 • 3min
9
The Importance of Biosemiotics in the Animal World
30:44 • 3min
10
The Importance of Mind in Ecology
33:36 • 4min
11
The Nature of Mind
37:16 • 3min
12
The Epistemic Cut Between the Animal World and the Human World
40:30 • 3min
13
Bateson and the Biosemioticians
43:17 • 5min
14
The Paradigm of Epigenetics
48:25 • 5min
15
The Evolution of Redundancy
53:25 • 3min
16
Gregory Bateson: Precursor to Biosemiotics
56:43 • 6min