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A Legacy for Living Systems

Part of the Biosemiotics Book Series (volume 2)

Editors: Hoffmeyer, Jesper

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6706-8

ISBN: 978-1-4020-6705-1

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Jan 1, 2008

1 - 10 of 15 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction: Bateson the Precursor

Hoffmeyer, Jesper

Pages: 1 –13

[Most scientists tacitly assume that the questions of origins, the origin of life and the origin of language or consciousness, are solvable on the basis of materialistic science, but only few among them seem to recognize the true enormity of the challenge posed by this belief. Bateson was one of...
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Chapter 2Angels Fear Revisited: Gregory Bateson's Cybernetic Theory of Mind Applied to Religion-Science Debates

Bateson, Mary Catherine

Pages: 15 –25

[Gregory Bateson intended his posthumous book Angels Fear as an approach to the scientific explanation of natural phenomena in the living world based on cybernetics that would not be so narrowly mechanistic that it triggers a fundamentalist reaction. This issue is newly urgent in the contemporary...
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Chapter 3From Thing to Relation. On Bateson's Bioanthropology

Hoffmeyer, Jesper

Pages: 27 –44

[The rapid increase in our technological mastering of more and more intimate and everyday aspects of life has created an acute sensitivity towards the huge lacunas left over by rational knowledge and technology. The present “turn towards the spiritual” has probably very much to do with such...
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Chapter 4What Connects the Map to the Territory?

Cashman, Tyrone

Pages: 45 –58

[Bateson left an unresolved ambiguity in his explanation of the relationship of the mind to the world, the map to the territory. This ambiguity is related to his failure to develop a theory of intentionality, reference, ‘aboutness.’ However, he left us all the tools necessary to resolve this...
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Chapter 5The Pattern Which Connects Pleroma to Creatura: The Autocell Bridge from Physics to Life

Deacon, Terrence; Sherman, Jeremy

Pages: 59 –76

[By his own standards Gregory Bateson was unsuccessful in his lifelong quest to explain how the informational or living realm (creatura) could emerge out of the energetic or physical realm (pleroma). Drawing upon recent insights in self-organization theory, the authors suggest a missing link...
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Chapter 6Bateson's Method: Double Description. What is It? How Does It Work? What Do We Learn?

Hui, Julie; Cashman, Tyrone; Deacon, Terrence

Pages: 77 –92

[Gregory Bateson introduced the concept of double description as a method of analysis critical to his challenge to bridge the connection between mind and evolution. First we examine three ideas crucial to double description: abduction, induction, and logical types. Abduction is employed to find...
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Chapter 7Gregory Bateson's Relevance to Current Molecular Biology

Bruni, Luis Emilio

Pages: 93 –119

[Among other things, Gregory Bateson is considered a pioneer in the study of communication in living systems and evolution. His contribution to cybernetics was very special because for him communication was a characteristic property of the living world. But his formulation of information as...
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Chapter 8Process Ecology: Creatura at Large in an Open Universe

Ulanowicz, Robert E.

Pages: 121 –134

[Gregory Bateson maintained that access to the Sacred was being impeded by contemporary scientific attitudes. He urged that, in order to avoid a bad end, society must adopt an ecological vision. The conventional perspective can be described as the legacy of a Newtonian metaphysic, which consists...
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Chapter 9Connections in Action – Bridging Implicit and Explicit Domains

Schilhab, Theresa S. S.; Gerlach, Christian

Pages: 135 –144

[Implicit and explicit learning and knowledge processes differ with respect to acquisition as well as expression of knowledge. For instance implicit knowledge improves correlative to extended practise, is normally unknown to the subject and is closed to verbal reports.]
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Chapter 10Bateson: Biology with Meaning

Goodwin, Brian

Pages: 145 –152

[Nature and culture have been sharply separated in modern thought. A major reason for this is the belief that language and meaning apply to humans and culture, but not to the evolution of species generally. However, recent studies in post-genomic biology on the structure of proteomes, on genetic...

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