Link to YouTube Video There is a question underneath every system question. Why does anything hold together at all? Donella Meadows spent her career answering the question of how systems work. Gregory Bateson spent his answering the question above with something closer to philosophy than…
Link to the Youtube Video There is a problem at the center of almost all teaching. The content says one thing. The form says another. A teacher explains the importance of curiosity, using a format that punishes the wrong answers. A therapist talks about the…
Two thinkers. Same century. Same rejection of the standard picture of the mind. Gregory Bateson. Anthropologist, biologist, cyberneticist. Asked: what is the pattern that connects living systems? Humberto Maturana. Biologist, neuroscientist. Asked: how does a living system know anything at all? Different starting points. Profoundly…
Gregory Bateson’s ecology of mind is the idea that mind is not located in the brain, it is the pattern of relationships between an organism and its environment. That idea shifts how we understand thinking, mental health, and what a self actually is. The question…