[Sharing as this is such a zinger]

Bhavana writes:

This quote from the Chapter 7 “G. Spencer Brown on the Paradoxes of “Not”– And Gregory Bateson on the Richness of Analog Communication” of this book by Phillip Guddemi “Gregory Bateson on Relational Communication: From Octopuses to Nations.”Me is quiet, pondering about our worlds.

Test reads ‘Inspired by cybernetics, Bateson interprets meaning as a function of the restriction of possible meanings (1971: 17), and it can never be definitive. With an increase in the data provided, the probability of an interpretation can be improved, but the process of “the approach to non-ambiguity” (1971: 17) is asymptotic and endless. The method of inquiry is therefore one which “postpones” (1971: 18) the question of meaning, in favor of asking about how a change in the sequence of events or their contexts might produce a change in meaning. So meaning is understood at the first derivative level before it is understood in “itself.”’

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