Ecology of Mind
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* Mind | * Mind | ||
* Information Flow | * Information Flow | ||
| - | * | + | * Information Web |
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transmission of information through its different components. In the former | transmission of information through its different components. In the former | ||
case, energy flows through the system, in the latter information (or electrical | case, energy flows through the system, in the latter information (or electrical | ||
| - | energy). | + | energy). Instead of a food web we food have an information web |
| + | where information moves from perceptions to actions. | ||
| + | In this sense perceptions correspond to prey and actions to predators, respectively. | ||
== Books == | == Books == | ||
* Gregory Bateson, [http://books.google.com/books?id=Wfe2t_qzaHEC Steps to an Ecology of Mind], University Of Chicago Press, 1972 | * Gregory Bateson, [http://books.google.com/books?id=Wfe2t_qzaHEC Steps to an Ecology of Mind], University Of Chicago Press, 1972 | ||
