Philosophical
What if the mind doesn't stop at your skull?
A blind person taps a cane along the sidewalk. Where does their mental system begin? At the hand? The cane's tip? The surface of the street? Bateson argued the answer is all of it. The mind isn't locked inside the brain. It includes the cane, the street, the feedback loop between them.
The mental world — the mind — the world of information processing — is not limited by the skin.— Gregory Bateson, *Steps to an Ecology of Mind*
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The thinker
Anthropologist & Systems Thinker
Gregory Bateson (1904-1980) was a British-American anthropologist, cyberneticist, and philosopher whose work on the 'ecology of mind' reshaped how we think about thinking itself.
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