Steps to an ecology of mind

Foreword by Mary Catherine Bateson, 1999 Foreword, 1971. Introduction: The Science of Mind and Order. Part I: Metalogues. Metalogue: Why Do Things Get in a Muddle. Metalogue: Why Do Frenchmen? Metalogue: About Games and Being Serious Metalogue: How Much Do You Know? Metalogue: Why Do Things Have Outlines? Metalogue: Why a Swan? Metalogue: What Is an Instinct? Part II: Form and Pattern in Anthropology. Culture Contact and Schismogenesis. Experiments in Thinking about Observed Ethnological Material. Morale and National Character. Bali: The Value System of a Steady State. Style, Grace, and Information in Primitive Art. Comment on Part II. Part III: Form and Pathology in Relationship. Social Planning and the Concept of Deutero-Learning. A Theory of Play and Fantasy. Epidemiology of a Schizophrenia. Toward a Theory of Schizophrenia. The Group Dynamics of Schizophrenia. Minimal Requirements for a Theory of Schizophrenia. Double Bind, 1969. The Logical Categories of Learning and Communication. The Cybernetics of "Self": A Theory of Alcoholism. Comment on Part III. Part IV: Biology and Evolution. On Empty-Headedness among Biologists and State Boards of Education. The Role of Somatic Change in Evolution. Problems in Cetacean and Other Mammalian Communication. A Re-examination of "Bateson's Rule". Comments on Part IV. Part V: Epistemology and Ecology. Cybernetic Explanation. Redundancy and Coding. Conscious Purpose versus Nature. Effects of Conscious Purpose on Human Adaptation. Form, Substance and Difference. Comment on Part V. Part VI: Crisis in the Ecology of Mind. Form Versailles to Cybernetics. Pathologies of Epistemology. The Roots of Ecological Crisis. Ecology and Flexibility in Urban Civilization. Index