This book represents a major attempt to revise this deficiency. Scholars from ecology, biochemistry, evolutionary biology, cognitive science, anthropology and philosophy discuss how Bateson's thinking might lead to a fruitful reframing of central problems in modern science. Most important perhaps, Bateson's bioanthropology is shown to play a key role in developing the set of ideas explored in the new field of biosemiotics. The idea that organismic life is indeed basically semiotic or communicative lies at the heart of the biosemiotic approach to the study of life.
The only book of its kind, this volume provides a key resource for the quickly-growing substratum of scholars in the biosciences, philosophy and medicine who are seeking an elegant new approach to exploring highly complex systems.
"What pattern connects the crab to the lobster and the orchid to the primrose and all the four of them to me? And me to you?"
- Gregory Bateson from Mind and Nature
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"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)