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Steps towards an ecology of cognition: A holistic essay

Author(s) -

Sabine Brauckmann

Publication year - 2000

Publication title -

sign systems studies

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.17

H-Index - 7

eISSN - 1736-7409

pISSN - 1406-4243

DOI - 10.12697/sss.2000.28.22

Subject(s) - holism , perspective (graphical) , epistemology , autopoiesis , cognition , hierarchy , sociology , ecology , cognitive science , cybernetics , psychology , philosophy , computer science , artificial intelligence , biology , neuroscience , economics , market economy

The essay infonns on Gregory Bateson's holistic approach towards an epistemic view of nature. The ecology of mind relies upon a biological holism serving as a methodic tool to explain living "phenomena", like, e.g., communication, learning, and cognition. Starting from the idea, the smallest unit of information, Bateson developed a type hierarchy of learning that is based on a cybernetic view of mind. The communication model focuses on paradoxa caused by false signification. It leads to a pathogenesis of sckizophrenia that is subsumed under the conception of double binds. This ecosystemic perspective of living processes representsa truly (w)holistic theory of nature.

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