Why do Things Get in a Muddle
Why do Frenchmen?
About Games and Being Serious
How Much Do You Know?
Why Do Things Have Outlines?
Why a Swan?
What is an Instinct?
Experiments in Thinking About Observed Ethnological Behavior
- Bateson's father had always a hankering after the problems of pattern and symmetry
- The types of mental operation which are useful in analyzing one field may be equally useful in another.
- The advances in scientific thought come from a combination of loose and strict thinking, and this combination is the most precious tool of science.
- A habit of constructing abstractions which refer to terms of comparison between entities.
- I felt that I had discovered how to think.
- Psychoanalysis has erred sadly in using words that are too short and therefore appear more concrete than they are.
Morale and National Character
- A person's character is oriented to the motifs and patterns of relationship in the society in which they live.
- To limit the scope of a concept is almost synonymous with defining it.
Bali: The Value System of a Steady State
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
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"
Part V: Epistemology and Ecology
Cybernetic Explanation
Redundancy and Coding
Conscious Purpose versus Nature
Effects of Conscious Purpose on Human Adaptation
Part VI: Crisis in the Ecology of Mind
From Versailles to Cybernetics
Pathologies of Epistemology
The Roots of Ecological Crisis
Ecology and Flexibility in Urban Civilization
