Acknowledgments
Page 10-11
A Brief Biographical Chronology of Gregory Bateson
Page 12-15
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A Note on Reference Style
Page 16-21
-----Bateson and the Environment
Page 23-23
-----Bateson and the Science of Ecology
Page 24-25
-----'Ecological Understanding Must Be Ecological'
Page 26-26
-----Epistemology and Recursion
Page 27-27
-----Presentation of Ideas
Page 28-29
-----Chapter Outline
Page 30-32
1 The Youngest Bateson
Page 35-53
-----W.B. ... the Eminent Anti-Darwinist
Page 36-36
-----Like Father Like Son?
Page 37-38
-----Between Art and Science
Page 39-39
-----Fieldwork and Margaret Mead
Page 40-41
-----Naven: The Observer Observing
Page 42-43
-----Steps: Battling for an Epistemology
Page 44-47
-----Ecology: A 'Post-Political' Movement?
Page 48-50
-----Conclusion
Page 51-53
2 A Theory of Consciousness
Page 54-75
-----Mutual Casual Connectedness
Page 56-56
-----The 'Logic' of Addiction
Page 57-57
-----Alcoholism and Control
Page 58-59
-----The 'Power' of Prayer
Page 60-61
-----Learning as Causality
Page 62-62
-----Epistemology and Social Power
Page 63-63
-----Some Difficulties of Interpretation
Page 64-66
-----A Theory of Consciousness
Page 67-69
-----Pattern and Gestalt
Page 70-72
-----Summary: Alternative Causality
Page 73-75
3 The Map Is Not the Territory: Time, Change, and Survival
Page 76-99
-----Indeterminacy
Page 79-80
-----Field Theory: Whitehead and Lewin
Page 81-81
-----Time and Change
Page 82-83
-----Atomic Succession: Whitehead's Pattern of Events
Page 84-85
-----The Map Is Not the Territory
Page 86-86
-----'Time Binding': Mapping and Indexing
Page 87-88
-----How Mind Is Part of the System It Seeks to Explain
Page 89-90
-----Problems of Biperspectivism
Page 91-92
-----Mind and Information
Page 93-94
-----Adaptation and Survival
Page 95-99
4 Metaphors for Living Forms
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-----Ideas – 'My Fortification'
Page 102-103
-----Hopscotch – a Matrix of Ideas
Page 104-106
-----Radical Software
Page 107-109
-----The Family – a Circle and Its Presence
Page 110-110
-----Metalogues
Page 111-111
-----Working the Metaphor
Page 112-117
-----Parables: Stories for Evoking Gestalt
Page 118-121
5 Cybernetics – Janus of Modernity
Page 122-140
-----Negentropy and the Arrow of Time
Page 125-126
-----Ross Ashby's Homeostat: Adaptive Feedback
Page 127-131
-----Redefining Noise and Error
Page 132-134
-----The Foundational Science
Page 135-136
-----A Brief Ceremony – 1984
Page 137-140
6 Communication and Its Embodiment
Page 141-163
-----The Body-Mind Problem
Page 143-145
-----Context as a Framing Device
Page 146-147
-----Coding: Analogue and Digital
Page 148-149
-----Codes as Rules
Page 150-152
-----Double Bind: The Implicit and the Explicit in Communicative Rules
Page 153-157
-----Redundancy and Metaphor
Page 158-163
7 Mind and Nature
Page 164-186
-----Animal and Interspecies Communication
Page 165-168
-----Evolutionary Coding
Page 169-173
-----Reflexiveness in Evolution
Page 174-174
-----'Time Grains'
Page 175-178
-----Darwinism versus Co-evolution
Page 179-182
-----The Turning Point
Page 183-186
-----Difference – a Truly Psychological Concept
Page 192-195
-----Abduction as Qualitative Method
Page 196-198
-----Modularities
Page 199-201
-----Autopoiesis: The Bootstrapping of Form
Page 202-202
-----Self-Referencing Feedback
Page 203-204
-----Recursive Fittedness – a New Beginning
Page 205-206
-----Biological Autonomy
Page 207-210
9 The Pattern Which Connects
Page 211-230
-----Bateson and Environmental Activism
Page 213-214
-----'Blaming Our Silly Selves'
Page 215-216
-----Ecological Understanding – Ethics or Aesthetics?
Page 217-217
-----The Processes of Perception
Page 218-222
-----Perception as an Ecological Phenomenon
Page 223-225
-----Laws of Form: A Logic of Recursive Unity
Page 226-227
-----From Active Perception to Active Aesthetics
Page 228-230
10 Visions of Unity
Page 231-253
-----'Last Lecture'
Page 235-236
-----Transcendent Mind
Page 237-238
-----Faith and Its Defences
Page 239-240
-----Gaps and Connectivity
Page 241-242
-----Self and System
Page 243-245
-----A Topological Picture of Recursive Coupling
Page 246-250
-----A Recursive Vision
Page 251-253
Appendix 1: Two Models of Ecology Compared: Odum and Bateson
Page 254-261
Appendix 2: Models of Recursive Hierarchy: Logical Types and Double Bind
Page 262-270
Appendix 3: Bateson's Model of Co-evolution
Page 271-279
Appendix 4: Scan, Interface, and Double Vision: A Model for Perceiving Ecological Wholes
Page 280-285
Select Bibliography
Page 340-361
Author Index
Page 362-365
Subject Index
Page 366-377
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