In the early 70's Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead addressed different
classes I was attending at the University of Western Ontario. Bateson
lectured about cybernetics, and the "double bind" theory as a cause of
schizophrenia, and everything in between, in an hour or so. Mead, sometime
in the same semester, addressed one of my anthropology classes.
Coincidently, if I remember correctly, they had recently separated from some
sort of a relationship.
I had enrolled at UWO to study linguistics and anthropology with the single
objective of returning to the "mission field" as a Bible translator to
indigenous jungle people (as I've mentioned before). In the brief
encounters I had with Bateson and Mead, my mind, for twenty odd years locked
more securely than any chastity belt, was pried open. I was astounded by
the scope of reference each so comfortably, and easily drew from. They gave
me curiosity and the joy of questions.
Rick Strongitharm
----- Original Message -----
From: "Damien Broderick" <d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au>
To: <extropians@extropy.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 10:54 PM
Subject: RE: the spark of creativity
> At 10:45 PM 29/02/00 -0500, "Don Klemencic" <klemencc@sgi.net>
> wrote:
>
> >Bateson published in
> >1979 and Dawkins in 1976.
>
> Gregory Bateson died in 1980 aged 76, and his books seem often compiled
> from earlier articles, so you might have been right originally. He was a
> spectacularly innovative writer.
>
> Damien
>
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