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	Gregory Bateson
		Gregory Bateson was born on May 9, 1904 in Grantchester England.
		His father, William Bateson, was a pioneer in the field of genetics; Bateson attended a charterhouse school in 1917 and then transferred to St. Johns College-Cambridge University where he studied Natural History.
		Gregory Bateson died on July 4, 1980 in San Francisco at the age 76.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/abcde/bateson_gregory.html (432 words)

	Gregory Bateson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Most of Gregory Bateson's work was written and published as essays in periodicals and is concerned with four subjects: anthropology, psychiatry, biological evolution, and genetics and the new epistemology stemming from systems theory and ecology.
		Bateson returned to Indonesia during the period 1936 to 1938 to research a mountain community on Bali, and in 1938 to the Iatmul of New Guinea.
		Bateson was overseas with the OSS in 1943 through 1945 and returned to New York as a Guggenheim Fellow, visiting professor in the graduate faculty at the New School, New York City, and at Harvard in 1947-1948.
	www.gwu.edu /~asc/biographies/Bateson/bio.html (685 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Gregory Bateson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Gregory Bateson (1904-1980) was an anthropologist, social scientist, and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields.
		Bateson is most famous for developing the "Double Bind[?]" theory of psychology, and for being Margaret Mead's husband.
		Bateson's take on these fields is idiosyncratic and centers upon their relationship to epistemology.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/gr/Gregory_Bateson?title=Steps_to_an_Ecology_of_Mind (311 words)

	On Imagination: Reconciling Knowledge and Life, or What Does "Gregory Bateson" Stand For? - Health - RedOrbit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Bateson used as a model the fact that for Protestants, bread stands for the body of Christ and wine stands for the blood of Christ, while for Catholics, bread is the body of Christ, and wine is the blood they are sacraments (Bateson, 1972, 1991).
		Bateson saw that paradoxes, confusion of logical types, metaphors, and sacraments, played a role in schizophrenia.2 But this inquiry led him to see that those logical conundrums and linguistic traps, far from being the exception, are constitutive of such central human activities as humor, play, art, religion, poetry, dream, fantasy, and so on.
		Bateson's use of abduction and metaphor is a decentering practice that describes and transforms based on an "emancipatory promise" (Derrida, 1994; from emancipare, to transfer property away).
	www.redorbit.com /news/health/110104/on_imagination_reconciling_knowledge_and_life_or_what_does_gregory/index.html (5250 words)

	The Institute for Intercultural Studies: Gregory Bateson: Biography
		Bateson was fond of saying, in one of his analogies from one kind of system to another, that the mind is an ecological system and that introduced ideas, like introduced seeds, can only take root and flourish according to the nature of the system receiving them.
		Bateson argued that many aspects of the fundamental structure and processes relevant to the segment of the world involving communication, messages, and meaning had to be carefully distinguished from those that were relevant to other aspects of the world.
		Bateson's early work on the patterning of culture, of the deutero truths (that is, what is true is what a particular community agrees to be true) that grew out of the structure of experience and learning (deuterolearning) in such communities, shares with the anthropology of the time two morally significant assumptions.
	www.interculturalstudies.org /Bateson/biography.html (5145 words)

	New age / esalen / 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.
		Bateson was the son of the distinguished geneticist William Bateson.
		Bateson is most famous for developing the "Double Bind" theory of schizophrenia together with one of the world's leading theoreticians in Communication theory Paul Watzlawick, his colleague at the Mental Research Institute of Palo Alto, and for being Margaret Mead's husband.
	www.new-age-guide.com /new_age/gregory_bateson.htm (716 words)

	ANTHROPOLOGIST BIOGRAPHIES - Bateson
		Bateson's 'form and pattern' epistemology is teleologically oriented to address the survival of living species, which ultimately rests on the ability to change.
		Gregory Bateson's contributions influenced the early days of cybernetics, during the times of the Macy conferences, when priorities still centered on designing systems that could use their own output as input (such as guiding systems for ground to air missiles used in World War II).
		Gregory Bateson's work still holds great potential for anthropology, as issues of self-reflexivity, locality, and contextualization have become thematic priorities, and as the practice of doing anthropology has become a topic of discussion for anthropologists.
	www.indiana.edu /~wanthro/theory_pages/Bateson.htm (4353 words)

	The Institute for Intercultural Studies: Gregory Bateson
		Bateson moved away from traditional anthropology in the late 1940s, embracing psychology, behavioral biology, evolution, systems theory, and cybernetics, and working toward a theoretical synthesis he referred to as "an ecology of mind." His legacy lives on, and scholars in many different fields continue to grapple with his ideas.
		Bateson was one of the original trustees of the IIS and Margaret Mead's third husband.
		The Gregory Bateson Institute of Liege, Belgium, is sponsoring a conference on 18 and 19 November 2006, at the University of La Sorbonne, Paris.
	www.interculturalstudies.org /Bateson/index.html (474 words)

	GREGORY BATESON AND
		In the work of Gregory Bateson, I believe, there is a way of thinking about phenomena which could allow for the development of a language which could speak rigorously about the process of psychotherapy in a holistic way.
		The first major contribution Bateson made to the investigation of the world of form was his using the mathematical theory of Logical Types, originally advanced by Whitehead and Russell in 1910 as a formal explicative tool in describing the hierarchical nature of patterns or meaning as they are manifested in human learning and interaction.
		Bateson describes the simple receipt of a message with a specific response as “Zero Learning.” The message received in a Zero Learning situation may be of any logical type.
	www.integratedprimarycare.com /BATESON.htm (9064 words)

	About Gregory Bateson
		Bateson, who died of complications of lung cancer at the San Francisco Zen Center, spent his last years living with his wife Lois and 12-year-old Nora at Esalen in Big Sur.
		Bateson's work is ultimately about the process of doing science, the words and thoughts of one who specialized in unmuddled thinking.
		William Bateson published a translation of Mendel's seminal 1865 paper in Mendel's Principles of Heredity (Cambridge, 1909) and is credited with at least a portion of that translation.
	home.tiscali.de /alex.sk/A_Bateson.html (714 words)

	Beats Biblionetz - Personen: Gregory Bateson
		Gregory Bateson, 1904 als Sohn des englischen Biologen und Genetikers William Bateson geboren, betrieb nach einem Studium der Anthropologie in den 30er Jahren Feldforschungen in Neu-Guinea.
		zu bateson: wahrscheinlich weisst du, dass von ihm noch ein drittes buch veröffentlicht wurde und zwar posthum von seiner tochter (die in den metalogen sonst immer nur fiktiv auftaucht) der titel ist "wo engel zögern - unterwegs zu einer epistemologie des heiligen".
		und in diesem zusammenhang scheint mir dieses spätwerk, an dem bateson in den letzten jahren vor seinem tod intensiv gearbeitet hat, von besonderem interesse zu sein.
	beat.doebe.li /bibliothek/p00001.html (1693 words)

	BATESON, CYBERNETICS, AND THE SOCIAL/BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
		Gregory Bateson was among the first to appreciate the fact that the patterns of organization and relational symmetry evident in all living systems are indicative of mind.
		Bateson employed the aggregate of ideas he referred to under the rubric of cybernetics as a unifying model of mental phenomena, and as a tool for "mapping" and explaining the previously inaccessible "territory" of mind.
		Following Bateson, it is my conviction that the patterns of organization and symmetry embodied in living systems are indicative of mental process; and, that the cybernetic paradigm--with its focus on communication and information as the key elements of the self-regulation and self-organization--best exemplifies these hierarchical patterns of epistemic organization.
	www.narberthpa.com /Bale/lsbale_dop/cybernet.htm (9399 words)

	Common Ground: Gregory Bateson: The Mindful Wizard
		Bateson was a visionary whose intellectual range could not be confined by the constraints of “specialized” knowledge and the bureaucratic templates of traditional academic departments.
		Bateson’s academic career was peripatetic: he became what the French call an intellectual bricoleur (”knickknack peddler”) of ideas and theories, moving across disciplines as a brilliant synthesizer who thought holistically and refused to specialize.
		Bateson argued that just as a frog’s neural filtering system is designed to identify movements of small dots as a swarm of flies, humans similarly interpret and construct the world according to their own filters, codes, and myths.
	www.commongroundmag.com /2004/cg3111/gregorybateson3111.html (1642 words)

	Amazon.ca: Mind and Nature: Books: Gregory Bateson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Bateson may not have added a great deal to this synthesis, but his analysis has made available to countless thinkers the wisdom of the systems thinking paradigm and the evolutionary imperative.
		Bateson illustrates in brilliant fashion a number of key concepts which "every schoolboy should know", but which, unfortunately, have escaped the notice of a wide variety of philosophers and scientists---if not every schoolboy, certainly every professional scientist and philosopher should be familiar with this work, whether they agree with it or not.
		Bateson's work here, interesting and thought-provoking as it is, is nevertheless unfinished---much more needs to be done to further extend his ideas---some obvious ways in which his work could be taken further include exploring its relationship to dynamical systems theory and chaos theory, fractal mathematics, and other more abstract philosophical areas.
	www.amazon.ca /Mind-Nature-Gregory-Bateson/dp/0553242830 (962 words)

	GREGORY BATESON: The Centennial
		Bateson is not clearly understood because his work is not an explanation, but a commission, As Wittgenstein noted, "a commission tells us what we must do." In Bateson's case, what we must do is reprogram ourselves, train our intelligence and imagination to work according to radical configurations.
		Bateson, about forty other people, and I are together for a two-day seminar to explore "Ecology of Mind." Most of the people have paid one hundred dollars to hear Bateson talk.
		Bateson believes that the cybernetic explanation is the most important fundamental intellectual advance of the last two thousand years.
	www.edge.org /3rd_culture/bateson04/bateson04_index.html (9445 words)

	Steps to an ecology of Mind - Gregory Bateson [cover] on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
		Gregory Bateson epitomizes what I consider a role model of both scientist and individual for a merry future of Mankind.
		Bateson knew how to connect science with phylosophy and art with technology, politics, ethics and even a religious vision of life, all through an outstanding intellectual activity.
		Bateson is my personal model, being my modest seek to ever come to understand him completely and spread the word of his vast work.
	www.flickr.com /photos/36613169@N00/33606594 (1276 words)

	Gregory Bateson Archive
		The Gregory Bateson Archive at The University of California, Santa Cruz, consists of some eighty document-boxes of correspondence, manuscripts, notebooks, transcripts, miscellania, and octopus and cetacean observation records, as well as several additional larger boxes of tape recordings and films.
		In general, the Archive may be said to contain virtually all surviving Bateson materials dating from the end of the 1940s to the end of his life, the only significant known exception being some correspondence between Bateson and Mead presently in the possession of Mary Catherine Bateson.
		At least one box of Bateson materials (presumably mostly correspondence from the early 1950s, in which the present archive is very weak) is known to have perished from rain at the Bateson cabin at Gorda, Big Sur.
	www.crazytigerinstitute.com /batesonarch.htm (4086 words)

	Cybernetics & Human Knowing: Gregory Bateson Essays for an Ecology of Ideas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Gregory Bateson's work, intensely interdisciplinary, even transdisciplinary, in character, continues to touch others in fields as diverse as communication and ecology, anthropology and philosophy, family therapy and education, and mental and spiritual health.
		These essays offer both personal stories of Bateson's influence, while at the same time demonstrating opportunities for its extension, and can be read as a gift to a creative spirit on his 100th birthday.
		Steps to an Ecology of Mind by Gregory Bateson, IS : Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husban...
	www.tonsofspecials.com /sales.php?29433 (621 words)

	GLOBAL VISION : GREGORY BATESON : THE PATTERN THAT CONNECTS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Gregory Bateson (1904 - 1980) was a brilliant and unusually eloquent scientist and biological philosopher with a poetical turn of phrase.
		Gregory Bateson may yet be recognised as the single most important thinker of the twentieth century.
		Bateson's philosophy proposes a way of describing the global crisis – and the manner in which it came about – in a way that reveals opportunities for non-adversarial actions which could prove more effective in healing the underlying source of the problem than the many efforts at controlling the symptoms currently underway.
	www.global-vision.org /bateson.html (1741 words)

	Amazon.fr : Cybernetics & Human Knowing: Gregory Bateson Essays for an Ecology of Ideas: Livres en anglais: Gregory ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Such is Bateson’s legacy that this film, made over a decade after his death, sees fit to put his name out there as a systems thinker that the world of film viewers ought to become familiar with.
		It is fitting that Bateson’s name should be invoked, certainly as a systems thinker whose work we need to know, but also as someone whose passions connect those with such diverse backgrounds and ways of seeing, as a physicist, politician and poet.
		Mary Catherine Bateson recasts the theory of the double bind in the context of Bateson’s ecological and environmental concerns.
	www.amazon.fr /Cybernetics-Human-Knowing-Gregory-Bateson/dp/1845400321 (1258 words)

	11.15.2004 - Conference to celebrate Gregory Bateson
		One of Bateson’s major legacies is his role as a major voice in the early development of the ecology movement as it took hold in the late 1960s and ‘70s in California and expanded into a global force.
		Bateson also blazed new ground with publication of the books “Steps to an Ecology of the Mind” and “Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity.” The books, published in the ‘70s and still popular today, reflect his primary impact.
		Bateson’s father was one of the early pioneers of modern genetics, William Bateson, and the young Bateson started out in his footsteps, earning a degree in biology.
	www.berkeley.edu /news/media/releases/2004/11/15_bateson.shtml (646 words)

	Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity (Gregory Bateson)
		Bateson begins with a list of basic scientific presuppositions that "every schoolboy should know", and further epistemological foundations are laid in two later chapters, one on the importance of combining different perspectives, of having "multiple versions of the world", and the other on different types of relationship.
		Bateson tackles subjects which have been largely ignored by traditional analytic philosophy, yet which are of crucial importance to understanding science.
		Bateson's discussion of stochastic processes and his suggestion of a parallel between "learning" and "evolution" are provoking, but I feel the latter holds only at a level of abstraction too high to provide useful insight into practical questions.
	dannyreviews.com /h/Mind_and_Nature.html (865 words)

	Don Jackson Official Web site
		Between 1953 and 1962 the eminent anthropologist Gregory Bateson and his research team, John Weakland, Jay Haley, Don D. Jackson, and William Fry, conducted one of the most important and influential series of research projects ever in the behavioral sciences.
		The first synthesis of the research Bateson and his team was the landmark article andquotToward a theory of schizophrenia," published in 1956.
		For detailed overviews of the Bateson Research project readers are encouraged to read Jay Haley's andquotDevelopment of a theory: A history of a reseach project," in C. Sluzki and D. Ransom (Eds.).
	www.mri.org /dondjackson/brp.htm (760 words)

	Gregory Bateson
		Gregory Bateson [1904 - 1980] - Anthropologist, Social Scientist, Cyberneticist - known as Gregory - was one of the most important social scientists of this century.
		Before being championed by the counter-culture of the 1960’s Bateson had been busy in the 20’s and 30’s as an anthropologist in Bali, and in helping to found the science of cybernetics among many other things.
		Adopted by many thinkers in the anti-psychiatry movement because he provided a model and a new epistemology for developing a novel understanding of human madness, and also for his invention of the theory of the double bind.
	www.oikos.org /baten.htm (574 words)

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