Metacommunication and Its Contents

Gregory Bateson’s concept of metacommunication emerged from a pathbreaking analysis of the phenomenon of play. Gregory Bateson’s gift was to take a phenomenon in animals and humans that is familiar and exists in plain sight, and re-analyze it in a novel a

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Phillip Guddemi

Gregory Bateson on Relational Communication: From Octopuses to Nations

Biosemiotics Volume 20

Series Editors Kalevi Kull, Department of Semiotics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia Alexei Sharov, Lab Genetics, Rm 10C222, Ste 100, National Inst on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA Claus Emmeche, Department of Science Education, University of Copenhagen, Kobenhavn K, Denmark Donald F. Favareau, University Scholars Programme, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Combining research approaches from biology, semiotics, philosophy and linguistics, the field of biosemiotics studies semiotic processes as they occur in and among living systems. This has important implications and applications for issues ranging from natural selection to animal behaviour and human psychology, leaving biosemiotics at the cutting edge of the research on the fundamentals of life. The Springer book series Biosemiotics draws together contributions from leading scholars in international biosemiotics, producing an unparalleled series that will appeal to all those interested in the origins and evolution of life, including molecular and evolutionary biologists, ecologists, anthropologists, psychologists, philosophers and historians of science, linguists, semioticians and researchers in artificial life, information theory and communication technology. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/7710

Phillip Guddemi

Gregory Bateson on Relational Communication: From Octopuses to Nations

Phillip Guddemi Bateson Idea Group Sacramento, CA, USA International Bateson Institute Munso, Sweden

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