Posts Tagged ‘Ecology’

5
Feb

Philospophical Reflections

   Posted by: dhcsoul    in Books (Cybernetics), cybernetics

This entry is part 2 of 7 in the series A Learning Machine
Gregory Bateson
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“The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think”
— Gregory Bateson

Steps to an Ecology of Mind — Gregory Bateson

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“In 1948, Norbert Wiener pondered a new science in his classic book Cybernetics, one that flirted with the “boundary regions of science.” Sustainability today occupies a similar state, but the concept is used more as a policy guide and buzzword than as a true science.”

via The New Science of Sustainable Dynamics: ENN — Know Your Environment.

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