This document provides excerpts from Gregory Bateson's writings on systems thinking and ecology of mind. It discusses concepts like double bind communication, symmetry, serial homology, phylogenetic homology, and how patterns connect living creatures across spatial and temporal contexts. Bateson argued that mind and nature are interconnected through recursive patterns and that evolution and learning fit the same formal regularities.
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A talk presenting my work recently published in PLoS One, at the Evolution meeting in 2012, in Ottawa. Examples of morphological differentiation illustrated with colorful pictures of a group known to many.
You can find the published paper here, without the pocket monsters:
Bapst DW (2013) When Can Clades Be Potentially Resolved with
Morphology? PLoS ONE 8(4): e62312. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0062312
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0062312
Obviously all the Pokemon are copyright of Nintendo of America. But how useful pedagogically they were!
Describe the family life cycle
Distinguish the shift from linear to circular thinking.
Describe the influence of Bateson
Describe the core concepts of systemic therapy: phase 1 & 2
Evolution 2012 Talk: When do we Lack Resolvable Clades?David Bapst
A talk presenting my work recently published in PLoS One, at the Evolution meeting in 2012, in Ottawa. Examples of morphological differentiation illustrated with colorful pictures of a group known to many.
You can find the published paper here, without the pocket monsters:
Bapst DW (2013) When Can Clades Be Potentially Resolved with
Morphology? PLoS ONE 8(4): e62312. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0062312
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0062312
Obviously all the Pokemon are copyright of Nintendo of America. But how useful pedagogically they were!
Describe the family life cycle
Distinguish the shift from linear to circular thinking.
Describe the influence of Bateson
Describe the core concepts of systemic therapy: phase 1 & 2
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Dear readers, as far as I'm concerned "THE CHAOS THEORY" is EXPLICITABLE WITH A SEQUENCE OF FEW IMAGES (THAT FOR OBVIOUS REASONS CAN NOT EXPLICATE IN THIS CONTEXT), EVERY way by pointing out faulty sources, I will try, to follow, to describe some in formation about IT.
***THE SEQUENCE***
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Chapter 2. The Design Argument
Chapter 2
The Design Argument
Copyright by Paul Herrick, 2020. For class use only. Not for distribution. The chapters you are about to read online this quarter are excerpted from a textbook that will be published later this year. This chapter: 37 pages of reading.
The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament shows his handiwork.”— Psalm 19, King David
What could be more clear or obvious when we look up to the sky and contemplate the heavens, than that there is some divinity of superior intelligence? —Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman philosopher, lawyer, statesman, De Natura Deorum
1. A Philosophical Tale
On the first morning of summer in the year 430 BC, the sun is coming up and an old philosopher is sitting on a hill above Athens, Greece. Observing. Listening. Reflecting on the cycles of life. The sun continues to rise, revealing the flowers in bloom. On a nearby hill, a sheep gives birth. A small stream gently makes its way to the sea. As he has observed many times before, he thinks again:
Each thing within nature has its own unique role to play within the overall order of things.
He reflects on nature’s order:
Within the system of nature, the many parts are intertwined and balanced like the notes of a song. Nature is a system of interconnected parts functioning in harmony.
Nature certainly does reflect an underlying order. We make predictions on the basis of that order every time we take a step, sit on a chair, drink a cup of water, or take a breath of air.
The old philosopher now looks at the city below. Athens is beginning to awake. Farmers are transporting their produce along roads leading into the city. People are gathering in the center of town, waiting for the agora (marketplace) to open. His thoughts continue:
Each part of the city has its own unique role to play within the overall economy of the city-state. Roads lead into the city so that farmers and merchants can transport their goods into and out of town; the marketplace serves people buying and selling; public speeches are given at city hall. The whole wouldn’t function properly if each part within the whole did not serve its intended purpose.
What holds it all together?
Like nature, Athens has an underlying order. Day by day the city, like the system of nature, goes through its cycles, intertwined parts balanced in an overall harmony.
In a nearby grove of olive trees, a shepherd plays a flute. The melody causes the old philosopher to think:
Each note in the song contributes to the harmony and beauty of the whole. Each note is placed on purpose for the unique role it will play.
The balance and harmony of the song reminds him of a recent experience. As he was standing in front of a temple in downtown Athens, he was deeply moved by its beauty.
Each column, each piece of marble, each statue, each architectural element makes its own contribution to the overall harmony of the whole; the beauty of the structure emerges from the .
Chapter 2. The Design ArgumentChapter 2The Design Argument .docxketurahhazelhurst
Chapter 2. The Design Argument
Chapter 2
The Design Argument
Copyright by Paul Herrick, 2020. For class use only. Not for distribution. The chapters you are about to read online this quarter are excerpted from a textbook that will be published later this year. This chapter: 37 pages of reading.
The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament shows his handiwork.”— Psalm 19, King David
What could be more clear or obvious when we look up to the sky and contemplate the heavens, than that there is some divinity of superior intelligence? —Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman philosopher, lawyer, statesman, De Natura Deorum
1. A Philosophical Tale
On the first morning of summer in the year 430 BC, the sun is coming up and an old philosopher is sitting on a hill above Athens, Greece. Observing. Listening. Reflecting on the cycles of life. The sun continues to rise, revealing the flowers in bloom. On a nearby hill, a sheep gives birth. A small stream gently makes its way to the sea. As he has observed many times before, he thinks again:
Each thing within nature has its own unique role to play within the overall order of things.
He reflects on nature’s order:
Within the system of nature, the many parts are intertwined and balanced like the notes of a song. Nature is a system of interconnected parts functioning in harmony.
Nature certainly does reflect an underlying order. We make predictions on the basis of that order every time we take a step, sit on a chair, drink a cup of water, or take a breath of air.
The old philosopher now looks at the city below. Athens is beginning to awake. Farmers are transporting their produce along roads leading into the city. People are gathering in the center of town, waiting for the agora (marketplace) to open. His thoughts continue:
Each part of the city has its own unique role to play within the overall economy of the city-state. Roads lead into the city so that farmers and merchants can transport their goods into and out of town; the marketplace serves people buying and selling; public speeches are given at city hall. The whole wouldn’t function properly if each part within the whole did not serve its intended purpose.
What holds it all together?
Like nature, Athens has an underlying order. Day by day the city, like the system of nature, goes through its cycles, intertwined parts balanced in an overall harmony.
In a nearby grove of olive trees, a shepherd plays a flute. The melody causes the old philosopher to think:
Each note in the song contributes to the harmony and beauty of the whole. Each note is placed on purpose for the unique role it will play.
The balance and harmony of the song reminds him of a recent experience. As he was standing in front of a temple in downtown Athens, he was deeply moved by its beauty.
Each column, each piece of marble, each statue, each architectural element makes its own contribution to the overall harmony of the whole; the beauty of the structure emerges from the ...
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Dear readers, as far as I'm concerned "THE CHAOS THEORY" is EXPLICITABLE WITH A SEQUENCE OF FEW IMAGES (THAT FOR OBVIOUS REASONS CAN NOT EXPLICATE IN THIS CONTEXT), EVERY way by pointing out faulty sources, I will try, to follow, to describe some in formation about IT.
Dear readers, as far as I'm concerned "THE CHAOS THEORY" is EXPLICITABLE WITH A SEQUENCE OF FEW IMAGES (THAT FOR OBVIOUS REASONS CAN NOT EXPLICATE IN THIS CONTEXT), EVERY way by pointing out faulty sources, I will try, to follow, to describe some in formation about IT.
***THE SEQUENCE***
This is a line of images "to explain the concept of the THEORY OF CHAOS". I used the few images I can post but the sequence is:
1) "New York -double 666">
2)" New York -The light of Leonardo ">
3)" Honduras-New Haven researcher who invited me to Cape Canaveral to see the launch of the Shuttle where it was also her work">
4)" Explosion of the same Shuttle ">
5)" New York -Tetragrammatron in reference to the Kabbalah "> from image 6 to image 14 >>> repetition of the concept
Chapter 2. The Design ArgumentChapter 2The Design Argument .docxspoonerneddy
Chapter 2. The Design Argument
Chapter 2
The Design Argument
Copyright by Paul Herrick, 2020. For class use only. Not for distribution. The chapters you are about to read online this quarter are excerpted from a textbook that will be published later this year. This chapter: 37 pages of reading.
The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament shows his handiwork.”— Psalm 19, King David
What could be more clear or obvious when we look up to the sky and contemplate the heavens, than that there is some divinity of superior intelligence? —Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman philosopher, lawyer, statesman, De Natura Deorum
1. A Philosophical Tale
On the first morning of summer in the year 430 BC, the sun is coming up and an old philosopher is sitting on a hill above Athens, Greece. Observing. Listening. Reflecting on the cycles of life. The sun continues to rise, revealing the flowers in bloom. On a nearby hill, a sheep gives birth. A small stream gently makes its way to the sea. As he has observed many times before, he thinks again:
Each thing within nature has its own unique role to play within the overall order of things.
He reflects on nature’s order:
Within the system of nature, the many parts are intertwined and balanced like the notes of a song. Nature is a system of interconnected parts functioning in harmony.
Nature certainly does reflect an underlying order. We make predictions on the basis of that order every time we take a step, sit on a chair, drink a cup of water, or take a breath of air.
The old philosopher now looks at the city below. Athens is beginning to awake. Farmers are transporting their produce along roads leading into the city. People are gathering in the center of town, waiting for the agora (marketplace) to open. His thoughts continue:
Each part of the city has its own unique role to play within the overall economy of the city-state. Roads lead into the city so that farmers and merchants can transport their goods into and out of town; the marketplace serves people buying and selling; public speeches are given at city hall. The whole wouldn’t function properly if each part within the whole did not serve its intended purpose.
What holds it all together?
Like nature, Athens has an underlying order. Day by day the city, like the system of nature, goes through its cycles, intertwined parts balanced in an overall harmony.
In a nearby grove of olive trees, a shepherd plays a flute. The melody causes the old philosopher to think:
Each note in the song contributes to the harmony and beauty of the whole. Each note is placed on purpose for the unique role it will play.
The balance and harmony of the song reminds him of a recent experience. As he was standing in front of a temple in downtown Athens, he was deeply moved by its beauty.
Each column, each piece of marble, each statue, each architectural element makes its own contribution to the overall harmony of the whole; the beauty of the structure emerges from the .
Chapter 2. The Design ArgumentChapter 2The Design Argument .docxketurahhazelhurst
Chapter 2. The Design Argument
Chapter 2
The Design Argument
Copyright by Paul Herrick, 2020. For class use only. Not for distribution. The chapters you are about to read online this quarter are excerpted from a textbook that will be published later this year. This chapter: 37 pages of reading.
The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament shows his handiwork.”— Psalm 19, King David
What could be more clear or obvious when we look up to the sky and contemplate the heavens, than that there is some divinity of superior intelligence? —Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman philosopher, lawyer, statesman, De Natura Deorum
1. A Philosophical Tale
On the first morning of summer in the year 430 BC, the sun is coming up and an old philosopher is sitting on a hill above Athens, Greece. Observing. Listening. Reflecting on the cycles of life. The sun continues to rise, revealing the flowers in bloom. On a nearby hill, a sheep gives birth. A small stream gently makes its way to the sea. As he has observed many times before, he thinks again:
Each thing within nature has its own unique role to play within the overall order of things.
He reflects on nature’s order:
Within the system of nature, the many parts are intertwined and balanced like the notes of a song. Nature is a system of interconnected parts functioning in harmony.
Nature certainly does reflect an underlying order. We make predictions on the basis of that order every time we take a step, sit on a chair, drink a cup of water, or take a breath of air.
The old philosopher now looks at the city below. Athens is beginning to awake. Farmers are transporting their produce along roads leading into the city. People are gathering in the center of town, waiting for the agora (marketplace) to open. His thoughts continue:
Each part of the city has its own unique role to play within the overall economy of the city-state. Roads lead into the city so that farmers and merchants can transport their goods into and out of town; the marketplace serves people buying and selling; public speeches are given at city hall. The whole wouldn’t function properly if each part within the whole did not serve its intended purpose.
What holds it all together?
Like nature, Athens has an underlying order. Day by day the city, like the system of nature, goes through its cycles, intertwined parts balanced in an overall harmony.
In a nearby grove of olive trees, a shepherd plays a flute. The melody causes the old philosopher to think:
Each note in the song contributes to the harmony and beauty of the whole. Each note is placed on purpose for the unique role it will play.
The balance and harmony of the song reminds him of a recent experience. As he was standing in front of a temple in downtown Athens, he was deeply moved by its beauty.
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colloposium #7
1. reading Gregory Bateson’s ‘Mind and Nature’ or <the
pattern which connects>:
on prochronism, lifelog, immediacy
dominick chen
colloposium #7 2007.07.20
@ IID Setagaya
2.
3. Gregory Bateson
• Gregory Bateson (9 May 1904 – 4 July 1980) was a British
anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, and cyberneticist whose
work intersected that of many other fields. Some of his most noted
writings are to be found in his books, Steps to an Ecology of Mind
(1972), Mind and Nature (1980), and Angels Fear: Towards an
Epistemology of the Sacred (1988)
4. Gregory Bateson
• The Double Bind. This refers to a communication paradox described first in families
with a schizophrenic member. Full double bind requires several conditions to be
met: a) The victim of double bind receives contradictory injunctions or emotional
messages on different levels of communication (for example, love is expressed by
words and hate or detachment by nonverbal behavior; or a child is encouraged to
speak freely, but criticised or silenced whenever he or she actually does so). b) No
metacommunication is possible; for example, asking which of the two messages is
valid or describing the communication as making no sense c) The victim cannot
leave the communication field d) Failing to fulfill the contradictory injunctions is
punished, e.g. by withdrawal of love. The double bind was originally presented
(probably mainly under the influence of Bateson's psychiatric co-workers) as an
explanation of part of the etiology of schizophrenia; today it is more important as an
example of Bateson's approach to the complexities of communication.
5. excerpts
• reexamine the theories of biological evolution in the light of cybernetics and
information theory.
• both evolution and learning must fit the same formal regularities or so-called laws
• His wisdom, his bodily grace, and even his habit of making beautiful objects are just
as quot;animalquot; as his cruelty. After all, the very word quot;animalquot; means quot;endowed with
mind or spirit (animus).quot;
• What is the pattern which connects all the living creatures?
• an aesthetic question: How are you related to this creature? What pattern connects
you to it?
8. “...produce arguments which will convince me that
this objects is the remains of a living thing. “
serial homology
9. “...produce arguments which will convince me that
this objects is the remains of a living thing. “
phylogenic homology
10. excerpts
• Going back to symmetry somebody said that quot;yes, one claw is bigger than the other,
but both claws are made of the same parts.quot;
Ah! What a beautiful and noble statement that is, how the speaker politely flung into
the trash can the idea that size could be of primary or profound importance and
went after the pattern which connects. He discarded an asymmetry in size in favor
of a deeper symmetry in formal relations.
• The anatomy of the crab is repetitive and rhythmical. It is, like music, repetitive with
modulation. Indeed, the direction from head toward tail corresponds to a sequence
in time: In embryology, the head is older than the tail. A flow of information is
possible, from front to rear.
• (phylogenetic homology) = cross-species sharing of pattern with a difference
11. excerpts
• Let me start again. The parts of a crab are connected by various patterns of bilateral
symmetry, of serial homology, and so on. Let us call these patterns within the
individual growing crab first-order connections. But now we look at crab and lobster
and we again find connection by pattern. Call it second-order connection, or
phylogenetic homology.
• 1. The parts of any member of Creatura are to be compared with other parts of
the same individual to give first-order connections.
• 2. Crabs are to be compared with lobsters or men with horses to find similar
relations between parts (i.e., to give second-order connections).
• 3. The comparison between crabs and lobsters is to be compared with the
comparison between man and horse to provide third-order connections.
12.
13. excerpts
• They had to discover (a) that all symmetry and segmentation were somehow a
result, a payoff from, the fact of growth; and (b) that growth makes its formal
demands; and (c) that one of these is satisfied (in a mathematical, an ideal, sense)
by spiral form.
• So the conch shell carries the snail’s prochronism – its record of how, in its own
past, it successively solved a formal problem in pattern formation (see Glossary). It,
too, proclaims its affiliation under that pattern of patterns which connects.
• the right way to begin to think about the pattern which connects is to think of it as
primarily (whatever that means) a dance of interacting parts and only secondarily
pegged down by various sorts of physical limits and by those limits which
organisms characteristically impose.
14. excerpts
• What is a story that it may connect the As and Bs, its parts? And is it true that the
general fact that parts are connected in this way is at the very root of what it is to be
alive? I offer you the notion of context, of pattern through time.
• There are people who would prefer to define noses by their quot;functionquot; – that of
smelling. But if you spell out those definitions, you arrive at the same place using a
temporal instead of a spatial context. You attach meaning to the organ by seeing it
as playing a given part in sequences of interaction between creature and
environment. I call that a temporal context. The temporal classification cross-cuts
the spatial classification of contexts. But in embryology, the first definition must
always be in terms of formal relations. The fetal trunk cannot, in general, smell
anything. Embryology is formal.
• quot;A stem is that which bears leaves.quot;
quot;A leaf is that which has a bud in its angle.quot;
quot;A stem is what was once a bud in that position,quot;
15. excerpts
• ...contextual shaping is only another term for grammar.
• We have lost the core of Christianity. We have lost Shiva, the dancer of Hinduism
whose dance at the trivial level is both creation and destruction but in whole is
beauty. We have lost Abraxas, the terrible and beautiful god of both day and night in
Gnosticism. We have lost totemism, the sense of parallelism between man’s
organization and that of the animals and plants. We have lost even the Dying God.
• Supreme Mind, or Logos, is at the head of the deductive chain. Below that are the
angels, then people, then apes and so on down to the plants and stones. All is in
deductive order and tied into that order by a premise which prefigures our second
law of thermodynamics. The premise asserts that the quot;more perfectquot; can never be
generated by the quot;less perfect.quot;
• I shall argue that this error was specifically an epistemological error in logical typing
and shall offer a definition of mind very different from the notions vaguely held by
both Darwin and Lamarck. Notably, I shall assume that thought resembles evolution
in being a stochastic (see Glossary) process.
16. excerpts
• Stochastic, from the Greek quot;stochosquot; or quot;aim, guessquot;, means of, relating to, or
characterized by conjecture and randomness. A stochastic process is one whose
behavior is non-deterministic in that a state does not fully determine its next state.
• What has to be investigated and described is a vast network or matrix of
interlocking message material and abstract tautologies, premises, and
exemplifications.
But, as of 1979, there is no conventional method of describing such a tangle. We do
not know even where to begin.