Talk:From Schizmogenesis to Feedback

mostly notes are in the pad because style questions are easier to address there. transferring over some things as they have been re-written.

minor edit here: new version In this chapter I will describe how Gregory Bateson inherited the “problem of entropy” from his father’s generation and how it was carried into his early work as an anthropologist, principally in his study of the Iatmul people in New Guinea. Bateson's book, Naven (1936). The title of the book referred to the name given to a series of honorific rites performed by the Iatmul. Naven presented a society which, despite containing destabilising elements, managed to retain stability in the long term.

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footnote [19] is floating in space - can I combine this with [18]?

[here “(a) that progressive change in whatever direction must of necessity disrupt the status quo; and (b) that a system may contain homeostatic or feedback loops which will limit or re-direct those otherwise disruptive forces.”[18] [19] In Bateson’s late work, Angels Fear (with Mary Catherine Bateson ]