Gregory Bateson citáty
1 1Gregory Bateson
Dátum narodenia: 9. máj 1904
Dátum úmrtia: 4. júl 1980
Ďalšie mená: Goergy Bateson
Goergy Bateson bol anglický antropológ, prírodovedec, kybernetik, filozof a psychológ - mysliteľ.
Citáty Gregory Bateson
„Let's not pretend that mental phenomena can be mapped on to the characteristics of billiard balls.“
Zdroj: Mind and Nature, a necessary unity, 1988, p. 99
„The map is not the territory, and the name is not the thing named (see also, Alfred Korzybski).“
Zdroj: Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity, 1979, p. 30
„. Repeated experience.“
— Gregory Bateson, kniha Steps to an Ecology of Mind
Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972)
„Criteria of Mind“
Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity, 1979
„Human sense organs can receive only news of difference, and the differences must be coded into events in time (i. e., into changes) in order to be perceptible. Ordinary static differences that remain constant for more than a few seconds become perceptible, only by scanning. Similarly, very slow changes become perceptible only by a combination of scanning and bringing together observations from separated moments in the continuum of time.“
Zdroj: Mind and Nature, a necessary unity, 1988, p. 74-75
„:4) Mental process requires circular (or more complex) chains of determination.“
Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity, 1979
„Rather, for all objects and experiences there is a quantity that has an optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.“
Zdroj: Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity, 1979, p. 56
„A relationship with no combat in it is dull, and a relationship with too much combat in it is toxic. What is desirable is a relationship with a certain optimum of conflict.“
Zdroj: Mind and Nature, a necessary unity, 1988, p. 56
„Perhaps there is no such thing as unilateral power. After all, the man "in power" depends on receiving information all the time from outside. He responds to that information just as much as he "causes" things to happen…it is an interaction, and not a lineal situation.“
— Gregory Bateson, kniha Steps to an Ecology of Mind
Zdroj: Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972), p. 494
„The world partly becomes — comes to be — how it is imagined.“
Zdroj: Mind and Nature, a necessary unity, 1988, p. 223
„No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels. Broadly, we can afford to sink those sorts of knowledge which continue to be true regardless of changes in the environment, but we must maintain in an accessible place all those controls of behavior which must be modified for every instance. The economics of the system, in fact, pushes organisms toward sinking into the unconscious those generalities of relationship which remain permanently true and toward keeping within the conscious the pragmatic of particular instances.“
— Gregory Bateson, kniha Steps to an Ecology of Mind
Zdroj: Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972), p. 143, as cited in: Lawrence S. Bale (1992) " Gregory Bateson’s Theory of Mind: Practical Applications to Pedagogy http://www.narberthpa.com/Bale/lsbale_dop/gbtom_patp.pdf". November 1992. p. 20
„#. A secondary injunction conflicting with the first at a more abstract level, and like the first enforced by punishments or signals which threaten survival… Verbalization of the secondary injunction may, there-fore, include a wide variety of forms; for example, "Do not see this as punishment"; "Do not see me as the punishing agent"; "Do not submit to my prohibitions"; and so on.“
— Gregory Bateson, kniha Steps to an Ecology of Mind
Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972)
„:6) The description and classification of these processes of transformation disclose a hierarchy of logical types immanent in the phenomena.“
Zdroj: Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity, 1979, p. 92 as cited in: Lawrence S. Bale (1992) " Gregory Bateson’s Theory of Mind: Practical Applications to Pedagogy http://www.narberthpa.com/Bale/lsbale_dop/gbtom_patp.pdf". November 1992. p. 6
„Whenever we pride ourselves upon finding a newer, stricter way of thought or exposition; whenever we start insisting too hard upon "operationalism" or symbolic logic or any other of these very essential systems of tramlines, we lose something of the ability to think new thoughts. And equally, of course, whenever we rebel against the sterile rigidity of formal thought and exposition and let our ideas run wild, we likewise lose. As I see it, the advances in scientific thought come from a combination of loose and strict thinking, and this combination is the most precious tool of science.“
— Gregory Bateson, kniha Steps to an Ecology of Mind
Gregory Bateson (1935) "Culture Contact and Schismogenesis" in: Man, Vol. 35 (Dec., 1935), pp. 178-183. Republished in: Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972, p. 75)
„Finally, in the dim region where art, magic, and religion meet and overlap, human beings have evolved the “metaphor that is meant,” the flag which men will die to save, and the sacrament that is felt to be more than “an outward and visible sign, given unto us.” Here we can recognize an attempt to deny the difference between map and territory, and to get back to the absolute innocence of communication by means of pure mood-signs.“
— Gregory Bateson, kniha Steps to an Ecology of Mind
From Part 4, section 2: A Theory of Play and Fantasy
Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972)
„Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.“
Zdroj: Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity, 1979, p. 56
„The change toward larger Gestalten and the necessity of this change for both humanistic and formal reasons can be illustrated by considering Sullivan's emphasis upon the phenomena of interaction. This emphasis is very clearly part of a defense of man against the older, more mechanistic thinking which saw him so heavily determined by his internal psychological structure that he could easily be manipulated by pressing the appropriate buttons — a doctrine which made the therapeutic interview into a one-way process with the patient in a relatively passive role. The Sullivanian doctrine places the therapeutic interview on a human level, defining it as a significant meeting between two human beings. The role of the therapist is no longer to be dehumanized in terms of definable purposes which he can plan, and the role of the patient is no longer dehumanized into that of an object of manipulation“
Zdroj: Communication: The Social Matrix of Psychiatry, 1951, p. 263 partly cited in: Cecil Holden Patterson (1958) Counseling the emotionally disturbed. p. 197
