DOI
ISBN: 978-88-459-1535-2

Summary
Bateson bases his concept of the relation between man and nature on the correspondence between learning and evolution: the mind, understood as an aggregation of interacting parts and processes, and the dynamics of the biosphere, both governed by a “stochastic” combination of chance and selection, proposing the idea of life sciences as a search for connecting patterns between all life forms.

Relevance for Complex Systems Knowledge
In his work “Steps to an Ecology of Mind”, a collection of essays, he passes through many different disciplinary fields (anthropology, psychiatry, cybernetics, evolutionary biology, etiology, etc.) to arrive at a set of ideas and concepts forming an original epistemological position, which he defines as “ecology of mind”, based on the relationships between parts rather than the properties of the parts themselves.

Point of Strength
Proposal of an original epistemological position