Lévi-Strauss’s and Bateson’s Views on Mind and Ecology
- Title
- Lévi-Strauss’s and Bateson’s Views on Mind and Ecology
- Description
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For Lévi-Strauss ecology meant ‘the world outside’, mind meant ‘the brain’; for Bateson both mind and ecology were situated in the relations between the brain and the surrounding environment.
For Lévi-Strauss, the perceiver could only have knowledge of the world by virtue of a passage of information across boundary between outside and inside, involving successive steps of encoding and decoding by the sense organs and the brain, and resulting in an inner mental representation. For Bateson the idea of such a boundary was absurd [. . .]
Thus while Bateson shared with Lévi-Strauss the notion of mind as a processor of information, he did not regard processing as a step-by-step refinement or repackaging of sensory data already received, but rather as the unfolding of the whole system of relations constituted by the multi-sensory involvement of the perceiver in his or her environment.
- Designer
- Ingold, Tim
- Date
- 2000
- Bibliographic Citation
- Ingold, Tim. (2000). The perception of the environment: Essays on livelihood, dwelling and skill. Routledge.
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