![]() ![]() ![]() The kick-off event for a yearlong commemoration of this momentous event and the tenth anniversary of Warm Data is next Tuesday, March 29th, at 8:00 AM Pacific time. and it is how I became a budding epistemologist.Ģ022 is the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of one of the books that rocked my world and changed my life forever. It was where I came across anthropology, learned about logical types, encountered cybernetics as a worldview. Thumbing through my well-worn first edition, I realized it was this book that introduced me, in the summer of 1980, to the difference between analog and digital. Each revelatory exchange began with questions such as “What is an instinct?” or “Why do Frenchmen wave their arms around?” that drew me in immediately. (Can we ever forgive Facebook for absconding with the word meta ? Grrr. Though the beach was clothing optional, what I was most excited about was cracking open the book.Īs soon as I found a cozy place to settle, I dove into the opening “Metalogues,” amazing conversations between a cybernetic bio-anthropologist dad and his inquisitive daughter. The first time I rode my bike past what was then the western edge of town and found my way to the ocean’s edge, I had a paperback copy of Gregory Bateson’s Steps to an Ecology of Mind in my pocket. There was a little-known dirt path down to a small cove beyond the road to Long Marine Lab and beyond the lab itself. ![]()
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