Steps to an Ecology of Mind

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Steps to an Ecology of Mind

First edition (p/b)
Author	Gregory Bateson
Subject	Anthropology, Cybernetics
Publisher	Chandler Publishing Company
Publication date	1972
Pages	542
ISBN	0-226-03905-6
OCLC	42309905

Steps to an Ecology of Mind is a collection of Gregory Bateson's short works over his long and varied career. Subject matter includes essays on anthropology, cybernetics, psychiatry, and epistemology. It was originally published by Ballantine Books in 1972 (republished 2000 with foreword by Mary Catherine Bateson).^[1]

The book begins with a series of metalogues, which take the form of conversations with his daughter Mary Catherine Bateson. The metalogues are mostly thought exercises with titles such as "What is an Instinct" and "How Much Do You Know." In the metalogues, the playful dialectic structure itself is closely related to the subject matter of the piece.