Quotes About Bateson

There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong.

Steps to an Ecology of Mind.7 Bateson

next book, Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D.10 Like Satir and Bateson, Erickson found the work impressive.

Thirty years ago, we used to ask: Can a computer simulate all processes of logic? The answer was yes, but the question was surely wrong. We should have asked: Can logic simulate all sequences of cause and effect? And the answer would have been no.

Gregory Bateson once put it . . . The human being, depersonified in his own talk and thought, may indeed learn more thingish habits of action.16

The "whole problem of heredity has undergone a complete revolution," Bateson declared. Mendel's discoveries could at last mature into a true science. Bateson christened it genetics.

Se debe a Gregory Bateson y a su famoso grupo de investigadores el primer proyecto de estudio sobre la comunicación y sus efectos no solo semánticos y sintácticos, sino sobre todo pragmáticos.

There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong.

Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.