Legacy for Living Systems

• Introduction: Bateson the Precursor.- Angels Fear Revisited: Gregory Bateson's Cybernetic Theory of Mind Applied to Religion-Science Debates.- From Thing to Relation. On Bateson's Bioanthropology.- What Connects the Map to the Territory?.- The Pattern Which Connects Pleroma to Creatura: The Autocell Bridge from Physics to Life.- Bateson's Method: Double Description. What is It? How Does It Work? What Do We Learn?.- Gregory Bateson's Relevance to Current Molecular Biology.- Process Ecology: Creatura at Large in an Open Universe.- Connections in Action – Bridging Implicit and Explicit Domains.- Bateson: Biology with Meaning.- Gregory Bateson's “Uncovery” Of Ecological Aesthetics.- Collapsing the Wave Function of Meaning: The Epistemological Matrix of Talk-in-Interaction.- Re-Enchanting Evolution: Transcending Fundamentalisms through a Mythopoeic Epistemology.- Bateson and Peirce on the Pattern that Connects and the Sacred.- Bateson, Peirce, and the Sign of the Sacred.

From the reviews: "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)