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