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== Review of Bateson ==
== Review of Bateson ==


# Patterns and Codes
=== Patterns and Codes ===
# Contexts and Levels
 
# The Social Context  
=== Contexts and Levels ===
## Relationships exist at a "wider" level
 
## The social context of a message is part of the code
=== The Social Context ===
## e.g. Who is saying this? Can they be trusted?
 
## Confers validity to the message
# Relationships exist at a "wider" level
# "Purposive Mind" and "Greater Mind"
# The social context of a message is part of the code
## The unconscious mind is the location of "codes"
# e.g. Who is saying this? Can they be trusted?
### Purposive Mind perceives messages
# Confers validity to the message
## The unconscious mind connects the "purposive mind" to the Greater Mind
 
### The purposeive mind normally perceives "arcs" within wider circuits
=== "Purposive Mind" and "Greater Mind" ===
# Communication and schismogenesis
# The unconscious mind is the location of "codes"
## Complementary vs Symmetrical interaction
## Purposive Mind perceives messages
## The difference is in the code
# The unconscious mind connects the "purposive mind" to the Greater Mind
### Complementary entails mutual understanding
## The purposeive mind normally perceives "arcs" within wider circuits
### Put another way, synchronized codes with a shared social map
 
=== Communication and Schismogenesis ===
# Complementary vs Symmetrical interaction
# The difference is in the code
## Complementary entails mutual understanding
## Put another way, synchronized codes with a shared social map


== Overview of Cybernetic Theory ==
== Overview of Cybernetic Theory ==

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ANTH 245: Lecture for SEPT 10 2007

SESSION 1

Business

  1. Readings to be posted on Blackboard
  2. Blogging can take place after the class

Review of Bateson

Patterns and Codes

Contexts and Levels

The Social Context

  1. Relationships exist at a "wider" level
  2. The social context of a message is part of the code
  3. e.g. Who is saying this? Can they be trusted?
  4. Confers validity to the message

"Purposive Mind" and "Greater Mind"

  1. The unconscious mind is the location of "codes"
    1. Purposive Mind perceives messages
  2. The unconscious mind connects the "purposive mind" to the Greater Mind
    1. The purposeive mind normally perceives "arcs" within wider circuits

Communication and Schismogenesis

  1. Complementary vs Symmetrical interaction
  2. The difference is in the code
    1. Complementary entails mutual understanding
    2. Put another way, synchronized codes with a shared social map

Overview of Cybernetic Theory

Feedback and Control

Examples

Communication Controls

Systems

Implications

  1. All communication involves control
    1. Decoding
    2. Learning
    3. Evolution
  2. Blurred distinction between between meaning and causality
  3. The code is in the message

Rappaport (i): The Ritual Cycle of the Tsembaga and What it Does

SESSION 2

Rappaport (ii): How the Ritual Cycle Communicates

SESSION 3

Rappaport (iii): Why Ritual? Why Religion?

Back to Bateson

  1. Control hierarchies and levels
  2. The sacred as a context of trust
  3. Purposive mind and cognitive models
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