![]() ![]() In the 1940s, he helped extend systems theory and cybernetics to the social and behavioral sciences. He spent the years before World War II in the South Pacific in New Guinea and Bali doing anthropology. From 1931 to 1937, he was a Fellow of St. In 1928, Bateson lectured in linguistics at the University of Sydney. His association with the editor and author Stewart Brand helped widen his influence. He was interested in the relationship of these fields to epistemology. He was one of the original members of the core group of the Macy conferences in Cybernetics (1941–1960), and the later set on Group Processes (1954–1960), where he represented the social and behavioral sciences. ![]() In Palo Alto, California, Bateson and colleagues developed the double-bind theory of schizophrenia.īateson's interest in systems theory forms a thread running through his work. His writings include Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972) and Mind and Nature (1979). ![]() Gregory Bateson ( – 4 July 1980) was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician, and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. ![]()
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