gregory bateson mind and nature a necessary unity

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San Francisco: Jossey Bass.Īrgyris, C., & Schöon, D. A guide to overcoming barriers to organizational change. The “mind” as a transformer of differencesĪrgyris, C.Bateson’s constructivist logic on cognition.In order to construct the “objects” and “concepts” that constitute the result of cognition, I also present a hypothesis on how both a cognitive system and its “mind-processor of knowledge” should be structured in order to undertake a recursive process to determine subsequent levels of differences (Sect. 1.2), setting out the framework to interpret his constructivist assumption and the resulting logic (Sect. Therefore, in this chapter I begin by presenting Bateson’s approach (Sect. He also specifies that the structure of the “mind” he outlines is general and applies not only to human beings but also to all “systems,” biological or otherwise, which have a certain degree of autonomy in perceiving differences.īy using the logic of Control Systems for the recognition and identification of differences, the present work seeks to operationalize Bateson’s proposals by demonstrating how it is possible to formalize the process of cognition starting from the abstract notion of difference. Bateson assumes that the mind of every “cognitive system” must act as a “machine” – with multiple inputs – capable of calculating differences, memorizing and comparing these, and finding analogies. This chapter introduces Gregory Bateson’s theory of cognition, according to which, in a clear constructivist context, the cognitive process is based on the ability of the “mind” to “detect, process, and systematize differences” – at various successive levels – which the mind itself “interprets” as information to “build” knowledge of the “world”.

Gregory bateson mind and nature a necessary unity