Talk:Negative Entropy – Bateson - Freud

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this feels like a stub, something is missing but I don't know the specifics of what is missing.

Freud’s (entropic) theory (central to Beyond the Pleasure Principle) was devised before the notions of negative entropy and homeostasis invited a re-evaluation. This was also the departure point in Lacan’s analysis of cybernetics and Freud in Seminar II (as we will see later). do you mean that beyond the pleasure principle was the departure point?

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This is unclear and I hesitate to amend it in case I am missing something - in DEUTERO_LEARNING.... The subject can “correct” for their idiosyncrasies and recognise their own position as one degree of abstract more removed than their immediate perception of the world.

does this mean:...? The subject can “correct” for their idiosyncrasies and recognise their own position as one degree degree of abstraction their immediate perception of it.

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this reads a little like a contradiction:

By contrast, at the level of deutero-learning the individual is able to control context, and is also aware of the degree to which they can and cannot control it.

can it be "...the individual is able to AFFECT context, and is aware of the degree to which they can control it?

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this sentence after ...impose order on the universe (Maxwells Demon) doesn't work, and I'm not convinced that its necessary (it sort of repeats the previous point?) The subject knows that its ability to change its own wishes and purposes, but the subject is an active “participant in [their]own universe”.[16] I propose cutting it, but can rework and re-enter as you think necessary.