Angels Fear (published posthumously in 1987) was co-authored by his daughter Mary Catherine Bateson. Some of his most noted writings are to be found in his books, Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972) and Mind and Nature (1979). In the 1940s he helped extend systems theory/cybernetics to the social/behavioral sciences, and spent the last decade of his life developing a 'meta-science' of epistemology to bring together the various early forms of systems theory developing in various fields of science. He had a natural ability to recognize order and pattern in the universe. Angels Fear (published posthumously in 1987) was co-authored by his daug Gregory Bateson ( – 4 July 1980) was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. It summarizes Bateson's thinking on the subject of the patterns that connect living beings to each other and to their environment.

In the 1940s he helped extend systems theory/cybernetics to the social/behavioral sciences, and spent the last decade of his life developing a 'meta-science' of epistemology to bring together the various early forms of systems theory developing in various fields of science. Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity Gregory Bateson, Alfonso Montuori (Foreword) 4.24 721 ratings56 reviews A re-issue of Gregory Bateson's classic work. Gregory Bateson ( – 4 July 1980) was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields.

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