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Gregory Bateson on Relational Communication: From Octopuses to Nations

Part of the Biosemiotics Book Series (volume 20)

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-52101-1

ISBN: 978-3-030-52100-4

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Oct 4, 2020

1 - 10 of 15 Chapters

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Chapter 1Bateson, Cybernetics, and Nonverbal Communication

Guddemi, Phillip

Pages: 1 –7

[For Gregory Bateson, any instance of communication, among humans as well as other animals, involves, in addition to its overt content if any, an inherent communication about the relationship of the parties who are communicating. This relational communication is, to use Bateson phraseology, a...
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Chapter 2Bateson, Relationship, and the Biologists

Guddemi, Phillip

Pages: 9 –25

[To fully appreciate Gregory Bateson’s ideas about relational communication, we need to appreciate the ways his scientific approach was heretical vis-à-vis the received wisdom of the biology of his time, and even our own. He was critical of behaviorism although he sometimes had to use its...
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Chapter 3Relationship and Metaphor: A Bird Courtship Interlude

Guddemi, Phillip

Pages: 27 –30

[In his analysis of nonverbal/ nonhuman communication, particularly among mammals and birds, Gregory Bateson emphasized the way that the experiences of early life are echoed in metaphor in the communication of adult life. One classic example of this, for example in his Metalogue on instinct, was...
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Chapter 4Among Wolves and Logicians, by Gregory Bateson

Guddemi, Phillip

Pages: 31 –35

[In this chapter I introduce Gregory Bateson’s own “voice” by printing for the first time an extended section of a talk he gave just a few months before he died. This talk deals with another example of the way early life experience, this time of wolves and dogs, is used by animals as metaphor in...
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Chapter 5Human-Animal Interactions and the “Carrier Wave”

Guddemi, Phillip

Pages: 37 –43

[Although animal-human interactions are not the main topic of this book, some examples can illustrate a number of important points about Bateson’s concept of relational communication. The chapter mentions the famous performing horse Clever Hans; work on horses (and mathematics students) by the...
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Chapter 6Analog and Digital Communication, and Similar Contrasts

Guddemi, Phillip

Pages: 45 –58

[Throughout Bateson’s thinking about communication, a certain set of distinctions recurs in several forms or approximations. These distinctions are often subsumed by the difference between so-called analog and digital, a contrast inspired by devices characteristic of the early computer age....
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Chapter 7G. Spencer Brown on the Paradoxes of “Not” – And Gregory Bateson on the Richness of Analog Communication

Guddemi, Phillip

Pages: 59 –73

[The features and paradoxes of analog communication were explored as one topic in a conference dealing with the implications of George Spencer Brown’s Laws of Form, a unique mathematical work with implications for cybernetics. The peculiarity of negation as communication was explored at that...
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Chapter 8The Slash Mark: Gregory Bateson’s Cybernetic Semiotic

Guddemi, Phillip

Pages: 75 –86

[Three classic articles reprinted in Gregory Bateson’s Steps to an Ecology of Mind can be seen as setting forth a specifically Batesonian version of semiotics, rooting it in information theory and cybernetics. It is founded in the basic relationship of organism and environment, and the predictive...
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Chapter 9Metacommunication and Its Contents

Guddemi, Phillip

Pages: 87 –107

[Gregory Bateson’s concept of metacommunication emerged from a pathbreaking analysis of the phenomenon of play. Gregory Bateson’s gift was to take a phenomenon in animals and humans that is familiar and exists in plain sight, and re-analyze it in a novel and unique fashion that nevertheless shows...
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Chapter 10Complementary and Symmetrical Versions of Conflict

Guddemi, Phillip

Pages: 109 –123

[Bateson’s evolutionary schema of the origins of what he calls “part for whole coding” is compatible with its originating in the context of conflict among animals. To see this, we need to look at the types of conflict that occur among animals -- as well as among human beings and human groups,...

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