Table of Contents

Introduction: Bateson the Precursor.- Angels Fear Revisited: Gregory Bateson's Cybernetic Theory of Mind Applied to Religion-Science Debates.- From Thing to Relation. On Bateson's Bioanthropology.- What Connects the Map to the Territory?.- The Pattern Which Connects Pleroma to Creatura: The Autocell Bridge from Physics to Life.- Bateson's Method: Double Description. What is It? How Does It Work? What Do We Learn?.- Gregory Bateson's Relevance to Current Molecular Biology.- Process Ecology: Creatura at Large in an Open Universe.- Connections in Action – Bridging Implicit and Explicit Domains.- Bateson: Biology with Meaning.- Gregory Bateson's “Uncovery” Of Ecological Aesthetics.- Collapsing the Wave Function of Meaning: The Epistemological Matrix of Talk-in-Interaction.- Re-Enchanting Evolution: Transcending Fundamentalisms through a Mythopoeic Epistemology.- Bateson and Peirce on the Pattern that Connects and the Sacred.- Bateson, Peirce, and the Sign of the Sacred.

Reviews

From the reviews: "In this book are collected 14 essays on a range of topics related to, applying, or extending Bateson’s work and legacy. … Open minded biologists and semioticians, as well as students of Peirce, will be interested … in this book. … I recommend it highly." (Phillip Guddemi, Cybnetics and Human Knowing, Vol. 15 (3-4), 2008) "Biosemiotics studies the ‘sign character’ of processes ‘inside or between living systems,’ from a single cell, to organisms, to ecological systems … . The introduction and the 14 chapters of this book are well written and generally understandable by a nonexpert in biosemiotics or Bateson’s work." (H. I. Kilov, ACM Computing Reviews, April, 2009)