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ecology of mind

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ecology of mind,
n a phrase coined by anthropologist Gregory Bateson to describe culture as a mutually interdependent world wherein individual relationships shape socially shared meanings while these collective meanings simultaneously inform the individuals' understandings of their actions.


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But rather than a noosphere, it is a networked consciousness that we are creating and internalizing as a new ecology of mind.
Or, to quote the title of Bateson's own journey, they would be taking their first Steps to an Ecology of Mind (2)
To his credit, he does draw upon Gregory Bateson's ecology of mind, J.
 
 
 
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