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Synopsis an ecology of mind is a film portrait of gregory bateson, celebrated anthropologist, philosopher, author, naturalist, systems theorist, and filmmaker, produced and directed by his daughter, nora bateson. To experience the essence of batesons message, you would really have needed to experience his own live delivery of that message. It is a deeply personal exploration of what has come to be called cognitive science from a brilliant man and. Discover new authors and their books in our ebook community. Angels fear published posthumously in 1987 was coauthored by his. Schwalbe charles darwin as an anthropologist, by e. Synopsis an ecology of mind is a film portrait of gregory bateson, celebrated anthropologist, philosopher, author, naturalist, systems theorist, and filmmaker, produced. We see that his epistemology fosters pragmatic insight concerning the relations between aesthetic perceiving and mental process that supports the characteriological growth of human beings in particular and scientific inquiry in general. Bateson s classic transdisciplinary work presents us with tools of thought, and explores the presuppositions of science and everyday life. To a gathering of counterculturalists and revolutionaries in 1967. May 23, 2000 gregory bateson 19041980 was born and educated in the united kingdom, and spent most of his professional life in the united states where he was lecturer and fellow of kresge college at the university of california, santa cruz.
We see that his epistemology fosters pragmatic insight concerning the relations between. This is heady stuff and the early introduction of numerous references to see glossary for stochastic, typology, etc. The author of naven and steps to an ecology of mind. His writings include steps to an ecology of mind 1972 and mind and nature 1979.
The point of this book is not mind and nature, but rather certain ways of thinking about. Batesons discipline hopping made established experts wary, but he found an audience open to his ideas in a generation of rebellious youth. Gregory bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of margaret mead. A legacy for living systems gregory bateson as precursor to. The film includes footage from batesons own films shot in the 1930s in bali with.
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