Steps to an Ecology of Mind

Okay.

So ecology of mind.

Mm-hmm.

What are the key elements of that ecology? Is it things like meaning and sense of self or is it something else?

It was a sort of polymath, and interestingly enough, was one of the people present to the development of cybernetics in a series of conferences that began in the 1940s.

But Bateson had a tremendously broad sense of the necessary interdisciplinary approach to human knowledge, which is largely being lost in the sort of dogged pursuit of technological advance.

But the ecology of mind, it goes back for me, the core idea would be the notion of the self-regulating character of the psyche.

And the idea that For psychological well-being, we have to, as you say, take care of questions of meaning, of our relationship with nature, of our capacity for community and intimacy and self-reflection.