Gregory Bateson s contribution to 20th century thinking has
appealed to scholars from a wide range of fields dealing in one way
or another with aspects of communication and epistemology. A number
of his insights were taken up and developed further in
anthropology, psychology, evolutionary biology and communication
theory. But the large, trans-disciplinary synthesis that, in his
own mind, was his major contribution to science received little
attention from the mainstream scientific communities.
This book represents a major attempt to revise this deficiency.
Scholars from ecology, biochemistry, evolutionary biology,
cognitive science, anthropology and philosophy discuss how
Bateson's thinking might lead to a fruitful reframing of central
problems in modern science. Most important perhaps, Bateson's
bioanthropology is shown to play a key role in developing the set
of ideas explored in the new field of biosemiotics. The idea that
organismic life is indeed basically semiotic or communicative lies
at the heart of the biosemiotic approach to the study of life.
The only book of its kind, this volume provides a key resource
for the quickly-growing substratum of scholars in the biosciences,
philosophy and medicine who are seeking an elegant new approach to
exploring highly complex systems."
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