Gregory Bateson

A re-issue of Gregory Bateson's classic work. It summarizes Bateson's thinking on the subject of the patterns that connect living beings to each other and to their environment.

A Necessary Unity

Mind and Nature

Bud Valley

Barely readable. For someone so concerned with context, Bateson fails to communicate the importance or relevance of any of his ideas. A frustrating mess of ideas like shards of broken glass, painful to connect and impossible to make sense of.

This book is a textbook reminder of why I cannot stomach formal epistemology - cognition about cognition, thoughts about thinking, like a maddening echo that devolves into nothing but a sea of irritating noise without a trace of useful signal.

Mind and Nature A Necessary Unity

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