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That reminds me of a story..........2007-07-17
This is a work of an exceptional and original genius.
"Mind and Nature" is both Gregory Bateson's most accessible and most difficult book. It is a deeply personal exploration of what has come to be called cognitive science from a brilliant man and great scientist who pioneered a deep synthesis of anthropology, language and communications, and biology over the course of a remarkable life. Be advised that it is more of a progress report on a lifelong quest than a coherent whole. If you have an enduring interest in cognitive science and you haven't read Bateson, you don't know what you are missing.
Bateson's starting point is, "How is it possible for the same evolutionary forces that shaped our survival as a species failed to shape our minds?" The answer, of course, is that it is not. It ought to be self-evident that the phenomenon that we call the "mind" is shaped by natural selection. Bateson does not claim to understand all the implications of this empiricist stance, his focus instead is on how to start asking the right questions about the mind and cognition. For instance: What is learning? What is play? (Is it true that only mammals play? Why is that?) If you think about it, these are phenomenon central to the human experience and there is no one that discussed them more insightfully than Bateson does here (and in "Steps...".
I find myself returning to this book again and again over the years. Its effect on me has been profound. I am sure I will never understand more than a small part of what Bateson is trying to tell me here, but the feeble fraction that I do understand is remarkable. The wisdom that animates this book has shaped many of the foundational notions of my life. It is full of life lessons.
And that reminds me of a story about the time I incorporated one of Bateson's teaching parables from this book into a speech I had to give not too long ago....
Inspiration Beyond Imagination!.......2006-08-17
Gregory Bateson, one of the greatest minds in Anthropology and husband to Margaret Mead, has given us an incredible perspective through which to grow individually as well as collectively. At a time when our world suffers, "Mind and Nature" provides the reader with new perspectives on a balanced co-existence with our Planet and all Her species! Having contributed to visionary thinking about how we perceive our world, Bateson has added to the brilliant body of work which includes new looks at schizophrenia, dolphin communications and Nature Herself! A must read for those who wish to find ways to contribute to the desperate change of perspectives that facilitate a harmonious co-existence with Mother Earth, and more importantly, new ways to view the Self!
You're Smarter Than You Think You Are.......2006-03-30
Sit in on a lecture by an engaging and knowledgable prof and you can expect to pick up a few tidbits. You certainly don't expect to come away knowing everything the prof knows. The subtitle of this book is about what Bateson knows, but you don't need to know any of that (or be particularly interested in it) to read this unusual book. My subtitle would be: You're Smarter Than You Think You Are."
I read this book in a Bantam mass market edition after sampling a piece of it in some science magazine (maybe Discover). Gregory Bateson was a renaissance man (which is one of the delights in reading him), the former husband of anthropologist Margaret Mead, and best known for the double bind theory of schitzophrenia, included as an essay in The Ecology of Mind. That theory may not sound well-known at all, but it's the basis of family counseling and why we talk about dysfunctional families (instead of just individuals). And we've all been in situations that are double binds, or as these no-win situations are known in everyday jargon: "damned if you do, damned if you don't".
Bateson wrote this book as metafiction, which is to say he talks about the book in the book, and he includes a handful or metalogues with his daughter, Catherine Bateson, herself now a writer for such magazines as Smithsonian, although he made them up. These metalogues reflect on ideas in the book and widen the feedback loop, as it were, to include the reader. They are relaxed and leisurely and not meant to be persuasive.
My experience reading this book was that it changed the way I saw everything. That sounds like an over-reaching claim or a self-help book gone wild, but the reason is, as Bateson points out, that many of our educations are simply based on gathering information, like Number Five in the film Short Circuit, with no help at all on how to think about it.
I certainly didn't understand everything in this book. But then, if you already understand and agree with everything in a book, why read it? What I did glean was a few tidbits from an engaging and knowledgeable prof who gave me not just more to think about but ways to think about it, and the happy realization that we're all smarter than we think we are.
The most important book on epistemology there is.......2005-08-18
Gregory Bateson is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. This is one of his last books and it deals with matters of epistemology. The thinking preserved within its pages is profound yet most of the time down to earth. There Bateson parts company with most formal epistemologists, the majority of whom are utterly confused, at least in their way of exposition. You do not need to be an expert logician to understand Bateson's thinking; he is the expert and tutors you through the straights of Scylla and Charybdis with the outmost comfort and safety. From this fantastic journey you will definitively be enriched.
This book is one of his most important. It is a testament of his view of science and coming from a person who helped revolutionize more scientific fields than the average person has even heard of it should be taken seriously. In its pages Bateson tells us what science is and how it should be properly exercised. Given the confusion and nihilism that have followed on the pseudoscientific revolutions of postmodernism and decostructivism (read Focault, Derida or Judith Butler for instance) such readings are necessary if at times disturbing. Not all ways of doing science are equal and many of them are based on logical confusion. Bateson is clear on that point. On page 24 he tells us "Some tools of thought are so blunt that they are almost useless". Self-evident to most people this maxim needs to be restated and taken seriously, especially within the social sciences that have only succeeded in making minor steps since the time of Aristotle. In this book we learn the why of this unfortunate situation. The question is if anybody wants to listen...
Still Bateson is not in any way preaching like some untouchable headmaster, unlike many other philosophers of his rank (read Jerry Fodor for instance). He is aware of the difficulties and obstacles involved and most of the time keeps his voice low. He also is not a techno-freak like many of the newest cognitive scientists, modern rationalists or evolutionary psychologists though he is one of their intellectual fathers. Instead he often talks of the need of a holistic approach, of looking out for the pattern which connects mind to nature and nature to the universe, and warns against the dangers of degrading the ecosystem and turning our backs to the fellow living creatures of this, still wonderful, planet.
If you only read one book on the history of science or on epistemology make this one your choice. You wont regret it. It is a cybernetically quided misile which will hit you on the head, and change you forever. To the better that is.
Gregory Bateson's Masterpiece.......2002-12-10
Gregory Bateson is difficult to "get" but incredibly rewarding once you do understand him. The number of concepts he deals with in this masterwork is amazing; the number that are still relevant more than twenty years after publication is stunning. Mind and Nature will some day be seen as one of the most important books of the Twentieth Century.
Bateson does not just tell us what he knows -- he shows us, using marvelous examples from nature that you will never forget. He gives beautifully clear -- on the sixth or seventh reading for some people -- descriptions of learning-by-the-individual and evolution-by-the-group as ***essentially similar fusions of analogic and digital (or energy and pattern) integrations.***
Learning-by-the-individual is "somatic" and benefits the survival of the individual, but ***that*** survival in turn becomes the evolutionary driving force for the group because the genes of the individual are passed on in the germ (genetic) line of the species. Mind and Nature are an essential unity. But what's more, the processes by which both mind and nature work are the SAME: Whether individual learning or group evolution, some pattern-preferencing mechanism "selects," from a set of cast-up possibilities, some qualities of some kind. The selecting mechanisms can ONLY select from those cast-up possibilities. When those qualities have survival value, they get passed on.
Far more than just a re-statement of Darwin, the essential unity of Mind and Nature described by Bateson has vast implications for our understanding of ourselves and our place in the universe. We are as one with Nature, as one with the way of the Universe. Each of us in our individual being, learning our individual lessons, goes through exactly the SAME process of stochastic learning as the greater group, the species. It's not just trial and error: We can ACTIVELY CO-EVOLVE with the messages of our world. What those messages are, Bateson teaches in stunning clarity: Modern systems thinking and complexity theory as maturing (yet still not mature) arts truly starts with Bateson's analysis. Bateson may not have added a great deal to this synthesis, but his analysis has made available to countless thinkers the wisdom of the systems thinking paradigm and the evolutionary imperative.
The message Bateson sends is that to survive intelligently as humans we must better combine imagination with rigor. We must use our abilities as conscious beings to courageously imagine better futures, to go where angels fear to tread, fraught with danger though that may be. Only then can we make the world better. Until we imagine new ideas, until we bring our unique contributions into being as 'possibilities,' the forces of evolution cannot act on them. Our jobs are to be truly and deeply human: We must add our unique selves, our Minds, to the possibilities of the Universe, while balancing our beings within the constraints of Nature's flows of energy and pattern. Only the longest-term survival patterns ultimately have survival value, and we best get with it as intelligently, and as soon, as we are able.
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Mind and Nature Necessary
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Necessary Knowledge
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'Necessary Knowledge' takes on one of the big questions at the heart of the cognitive sciences - what knowledge do we possess at birth, and what do we learn along the way? It is now widely accepted that evolution, individual development, and individual learning can no longer be studied in isolation from each-other - they are inextricably linked. Therefore any successful theory must integrate these elements, and somehow relate them to human culture. Clearly we learn from the world around us, but that learning is skewed towards specific things about the world. We do not just attend to and learn about every stimulus that confronts us - if we did, learning would be impossibly time-consuming and ineffective. Learning is constrained - we are primed to learn about certain aspects of the world and ignore others. So what are these constraints, and where do they come from? The theory expounded in this book is that we enter the world with small amounts of innate representational knowledge. It neither sides with those who believe in 'blank slate' theories, nor with those who believe all learning is innate. In fact, what is written on our 'slates' at birth is a certain type of knowledge about specific things in the world, the general configuration of the human face for instance, a knowledge that other people possess minds and motives. 'Necessary Knowledge' presents an important new theory, in a book that makes an accessible and thought provoking contribution to one of the enduring issues about human nature.
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The Perception and application of flashing lights: An international symposium held at Imperial College, London, under the joint auspices of the National ... Imperial College, on 19-22 April 1971
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London Under Midnight
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The graffiti spread through London that summer like wildfire. Its population carried on with life as usual in one of the richest cities on the planet. But beneath the surface there is change. Men and women are going missing without trace. What has the old African preacher seen emerging from undergrowth near the river? Is this the essence of evil encountered long ago? Ben Ashton is an investigative writer. When he's commissioned to find out who is responsible for the Vampyr Sharkz graffiti he thinks his luck has changed for the better. Little does he guess how wrong he is?
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Not his Best.......2007-07-18
I was so excited when I heard that Simon Clark was putting out a new novel. I was even more excited when I found out it was going to be about vampires. His earlier versions of vampires (Vamryrrhic and Vamryrrhic Rites) were so good I could not wait to see where he went with this novel. The concept was great, but the ending is terrible. This novel could easily been longer so the ending was not as forced as it seems. Up until the last two chapters it was amazing. So read it because it is a Simon Clark novel, but if you are new to him read one of his other novels. I recommend Blood Crazy.
The King of the Modern Vampire Tale.......2006-10-07
Simon Clark has already staked his claim as one of the top names in horror fiction, but with London Under Midnight he leads the readers into some new and extremely dangerous places. The story starts with a kind of twisted whodunit but transforms into a horrific tale of bloodlust and ravenous evil.
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Pull on your wellies and grab your hard-hat.......2005-07-03
Having spent some time in London, and being a card-carrying historian, I was already aware of the hidden Fleet River, and the government bunkers from World War II, and (of course) the Underground itself. But I'd never heard of the Little Conduit beside St. Paul's, or the pneumatic postal railway, and the 1,500-mile network of 19th-century sewers (on which the metropolitan area still depends) never entered my mind. And I don't know how safe the pedestrian tunnels under the Thames would be these days, in any case. But the authors have done an amazing job tracing a number of "lost" rivers, and scores of independent water company pipelines, and assorted arsenals and crypts and tramways. And now I have a list for my next visit to London!
DOWN UNDER - LONDON.......2004-06-07
Except for Anglophiles and London Buffs most people's knowledge of the London Underground is limited to its use as a bomb shelter during the World War II Blitz. However, the Underground existed for centuries before WWII. Chapter 1 succinctly narrates the Underground during the Blitz, and concludes stating "....to understand the full complexity of what lies under London, we must begin with her subterranean rivers."
Chapter 2 notes "There are over a hundred miles of rivers in London, fed by over a hundred springs and wells....Hidden from view, recalled only in street names...." As early as 1463 a Royal Act ordered "The covering-in of the Walbook's middle and lower reaches" vaulting and paving it over. These rivers were covered over or diverted into tunnels. Many of the rivers underground became more sewers than rivers. The text also notes "There are several lost rivers under London referred to by London's chroniclers but impossible to trace."
The text devotes several chapters to the development of underground sewers, water systems, gas pipes, trains, and later telegraph, telephone and electricity systems. The text gives captivating accounts of several engineering problems that were confronted, how they were resolved together with thumbnail sketches of the engineers and managers involved. . Tunneling under the Thames River was a major venture taking fifteen years to complete. Most intriguing is the account of The London Hydraulic Power Company founded in 1871where "Raw water (untreated) water was pumped at a pressure of 400 pounds per square inch through the miles of pipes running beneath London, and was used to raise and lower cranes, operated lifts.... theatre safety curtains, wagon hoists, even hat hat-blocking presses...." Amazingly the company survived until the mid-1970s.
As telegraph lines were developed underground, the Post Office gained control of the telegraph system and later gained control of the telephone system which they tried to suppress. As electricity developed around a national grid, distribution moved underground and by WWII was operating as a national industry. After the dropping of the first atomic bomb, the British government considered operating from the underground but by the 1960s gave up plans to fighting and surviving a nuclear war from under London. The text notes that new water and electricity tunnels characterized the 1980s and early 1990s with "The biggest capital project under London in the last ten years has been the completion of the London Ring Water Main"
This is a fascinating book and the reader will be amazed by the extensive underground systems under London that are still in use today.
Fascinating!.......2003-04-24
As a London Underground enthusiast, I just couldn't resist what this book had to offer. The sections on the history of the Underground were very informative and easy to read.
But there's more to the book than that. I thoroughly enjoyed every page. The author's conversational (and often amusing) tone lend a lightness to a subject that could otherwise be very dull. The book runs the gamut of subjects--from the underground and now mostly mysterious Fleet to the high-speed cables of British Telecom. It's all there.
This book is an excellent resource for anyone doing research, and a great read if you're fascinated by things beneath the surface.
History you can dig........2000-10-13
This is a fantastic history of what's underneath the ground of today's London. Blending history, geography, and engineering, this book describes the smothered streams and covered rivers, the water pipes and sewers, and the tunnels under the Thames.
A major section is devoted to the London Underground - the "Tube" - and its history. The Post Office's automated mail-handling railway is briefly touched on as well.
The role of London's underground spaces during wartime is reviewed including the underground factories and the Cabinet War Rooms of the Second World War.
The book is profusely illustrated with a heavy emphasis on contemporary cut-away and explanatory drawings. The pictures make the text come alive.
A really great book for the Anglophile or London-buff.
Extremely informative.......2000-04-12
It's a great book if you're interested in this sort of thing. From the early beginnings of London's sewers to the modern day tube and postal networks, this book covers it all in a remarkably easy to read fashion. Of particular interest to me were the sections on Londons 'lost' rivers as well as the Underground, both covered in this book. Highly recommended.
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Under His Skin (Harlequin Blaze)
Jeanie London
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UNDER HIS SKIN . . . How does an indecent proposal fit into a simple business plan? Anthony DiLeo is about to find out. When he approaches Tess Hardaway with an idea to benefit both their companies, she counters with an unexpected—and thoroughly steamy—suggestion. A proposition that involves the two of them getting to know each other in the most intimate way!
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A Fun Fast-Paced Read!.......2005-06-04
Ms. London has done a fine job creating some fun characters that will entertain the reader during the duration of this read. Although this is not a new storyline Tess and Anthony are fun and irresistable characters that manage to take a hold of the story and tell it in their own way.
Tess is a no nonsense woman that knows her way around a race track or boardroom. She is in New Orleans for a convention and than road race when she is approached by Anthony DiLeo. Anthony is talk blonde and yummy. He also beats her racing! But she has more worries than that. Someone has been sending nasty letters to her father and her father is just a tad protective. Tess wants freedom so she asks Anthony to ride shotgun. Will the wide open road lead to more than a win for Tess?
Anthony wants to talk to Tess. He has a business propostion and he will do whatever it takes to get the sassy, sexy lady to listen to me. He'll even take to the road with her. But to be honest it's no hardship and if he has anything to do with it it will be a win win situation for the both of them. Of course it won't be easy. Tess is strong and he will be willing to do what he must...even stand back in order for him to win the one prize he must have...Tess!
Tess and Anthony are fun and realistic characters. Tess is not a milk and water miss but rather a woman that knows her own mind. Anthony on the other hand is strong enough to step back and let his lady shine. The storyline although not new is made fresh by the characters. This is one quick read that will leave you vastly entertained.
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In the latter part of the sixteenth century, Elizabethan London was uneasy: was it France's intent to side with Protestant England or with the hostile Catholic powers of Europe? This absorbing book describes the espionage operation that was devised to find the answer.
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Diplomatic intrigue .............2006-04-12
This is a fairly scholarly work. Although it is not overly long, and it does allow a reader that is less well informed on the Elizabethan period to get a feel for the politics of the period, the book is not so dramatic as to be compelling to the average reader, and would be better suited to large institutional collections and those with a particular interest in Elizabethan England.
Bossy writes in an erudite style, and appears to have attempted a more novelistic style for the structure of the book, but the nature of the book remains unchanged, and unfortunately, the literary gymnastics seem to reduce clarity in the account.
Still a good book for interested parties.
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The London Collection: Under the Skin of the Capital of Cool (Capital Collection)
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From Chelsea to Camden, Hammersmith to Hackney, this area-by-area collection of urban facts and compelling stats takes lovers of London on a unique tour of the “capital of cool.” In addition to getting fun quotes and notes, inquiring minds will find the answers to these pressing questions: What piece of classical music are the chimes of Big Ben based on? Which is the bestselling chocolate bar from machines on the Underground? Where did John Logie Baird first demonstrate how television works? What tragic events led to the Olympics being held in London in 1908 and 1948? Anglophiles and tourists will eat this up!
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Theatre Under the Nazis
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Were those who worked in the theatres of the Third Reich willing participants in the Nazi propaganda machine or artists independent of official ideology? To what extent did Richard Strauss and Carl Orff follow Nazi dogma? How did famous directors such as Gustaf Grüdgens and Jürgen Fehling react to the new regime? Why were Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw among the most performed dramatists of the time? And why did the Nazis sanction Jewish theatre? This is the first book in English about theater in the entire Nazi period. Based on contemporary press reports, research in German archives, and interviews with surviving playwrights, actors, and musicians, it is a much needed guide to this neglected area of European culture.
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Court Life below Stairs, or London under the First Georges: 1760-1830
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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1885 edition by Ward and Downey, London.
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Under Contract: An Anna Lee Investigation
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It's all there in black and white...
Elizabeth Wakefield and Scott Sinclair have made it into a major national news magazine! Will Scott's hints of a personal relationship with Elizabeth make her turn red with embarrassment...or anger?
Tom Watts is disgusted by the magazine article, and by the suggestive things Scott says about Elizabeth. Can Tom win her back by broadcasting his feelings on WSVU?
Jessica Wakefield can't believe that Nick Fox wants to give up his exciting career as an undercover cop in order to save their love. But will Jessica still feel the same way about Nick if he's not wearing a badge?
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THe inside story.......2003-02-07
THis book have you heard about Elizabeth is really fun to read. It helps you think about how to solve teenage promblems. THen you can alwas read over and over. This kind of books are also addicting to read. Once you read one you have to read the rest.
THis book that I am reading is now is called Sweet Valley university have you heard about Elizabeht? It is a bout Jessica and her sister ELizabeth. THey are having some trouble with realationships . Jessica has a boyfriend named Nick . He does not want her to be in Bobby Hornets contest. It is a Bathing suit contest and nick disagrees because she wants to go on a date with Bobby Hornet. Later nick get drunk and does not know what to do. That is the only thing that he could think of to do.
That's enough about Jessica . LEts talk about Elizabeth. SHE is going through a tuff time in her life because she caught her boyfriend TOm kissing Dana. She saw with her own eyes so she had to break up with him. Elizabeth knows inside that she loves tomm but she can't express it when she see's Dana she starts to cry. Rumor says that Elizabeth is leaving Sweet Valley to get rid of seeing tom, but Elizabeth says no. WIll tom express to Elizabeth that he still loves her? Will Elizabeth stay in Sweet Valley.
Pretty good..but also a bit disappointing...........2001-10-09
I just hope Liz had checked 'NO' 'cause Sweet Valley just won't be same with her in Denver!!!!
I always have thought she was kind of a bore, but that doesn't mean she is not my fave twin.....
The reason I gave 3 stars is 'cause I don't like Scott or Tom Watts!!!
Scott Slimeball- as Tom put him, I don't think he is kind of person Liz will go out with......
I think it's just because her terrible break-up with Tom had caused her to do uncharacteristic things and that is why she is going out with Scott...(I think..)
But anyway,I recommend this book to you, but when you read it over and over again it could easily get you to SLEEP!!!
From An Expert.............2000-12-30
I'D GIVE IT 5 OUT OF TEN! Really, Francine- for some serious rommance, you need to make Scott come on stronger. It was OK, but borrow it from a friend, or the library before going out and buying it- even if you do own every Sweet Valley Book ever published.
Good but, please - get rid of Dana and Scott!.......2000-06-10
Much as I love Liz and Tom, I just wish that they would use their B-R-A-I-N-S and T-A-L-K with each other. It's so annoying that they cannot have an adult conversation without resorting to silly insults. And what is it with Dana and Scott? Can't Liz and Tom (two intelligent beings - supposedly) see what manipulative creeps they are? Especially Dana, I mean, if she loves Tom so much - why is she hiding things from him? Scott is just a jerk, it's so obvious that he's just using Liz as a trophy rather than a girlfriend. Jessica should just wake up from La-La land, I mean, what is she on? Police work is certainly not fun - not if someone has a gun to your head. But, I do think that Nick is good for her maybe he'll calm her down a bit. Overall, I do reccommend it, even if the Liz and Tom thing does tend to irritate.
This book was ok. That's all........1999-06-13
This book was ok, but I concentrated too much on Elizabeth likes Tom, Tom likes Elizabeth, Scott likes Elizabeth, and Dana likes Tom. Scott and Dana are big sleazes, and I still can't believe that Dana hid the letter from Tom to Elizabeth. But I think that Elizabeth and Tom are too obsessive when they're together, so they hopefully won't get back together. And they need to stop feeling so guilty about not being with eachother. If they hate each other, then why do they keep thinking of eachother? I think that this book was sorriest of all the SVU books.
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