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Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions. #bateson #integral

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

Gregory Bateson

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Who was Gregory Bateson? #bateson

It is actually a very big question and not one in our capacity to answer.  But this short and readable biography of the man who was married to famous anthropologist Margaret Mead may fill in some of the gaps.

Bio of Gregory Bateson

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In the Transmission of human culture....#bateson #quote

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.

Gregory Bateson

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Gregory Bateson's Allegory #bateson #myth #nlp #eriksonion hypnosis #integral

There was once a beautiful lady, whose habit it was to sleep on disused railroad tracks.

In that same country there lived also a brutal surveyor who ran the trains up and down the tracks. He was at heart an explorer and therefore was particularly attracted by those branches of the railroad system where no trains had passed within living memory. These were precisely those tracks where the lady delighted to slumber....

It is said that Gregory Bateson used story extensively in his teachings with great effect. This is an excerpt of Allegory written published in CoEvolution Quarterly in 1978.  Since we do not permission to reproduce, we invite you to follow the link to this intriguing tale and the come back and post your thoughts about it and what it stirs in you. With which character do you indentify with more?

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An Ecology of Mind, The Gregory Bateson Documentary #youtube #bateson #ecology #integral

Bateson is likely someone that all of us who believe in proactive human evolution should know of and perhaps even study. 

His youngest daughter Nora, has unearthered his work documents and put together an award winning film on her father's contributions. A film to see, this short trailer has been released. 

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