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Intro -- Prologue: Cybernetics, Bateson, and the Missile Crisis -- Gregory Bateson and Octopus -- Brief Outline of the Book -- Letter from Gregory Bateson to Warren McCulloch, MC 1039-10a, October 25, 1962 -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Bateson, Cybernetics, and Nonverbal Communication -- 1.1 History of Bateson's Interest -- 1.2 Humor and Humans - A Non-Digression into the Carrier Wave -- 1.3 Nonverbal Nations -- Chapter 2: Bateson, Relationship, and the Biologists -- 2.1 The Relational Abstract -- 2.2 Critique of Conventional Biological and Scientific Ideas -- 2.3 The Question of Instinct -- 2.4 The Carrier Wave -- Chapter 3: Relationship and Metaphor: A Bird Courtship Interlude -- 3.1 Courtship Feeding as Abductive Metaphor -- Chapter 4: Among Wolves and Logicians, by Gregory Bateson -- Chapter 5: Human-Animal Interactions and the "Carrier Wave" -- 5.1 Cetaceans, Communication, and Music -- Chapter 6: Analog and Digital Communication, and Similar Contrasts -- 6.1 Analog and Digital -- 6.2 Primary Process -- 6.3 Digital Number and Analog Quantity -- 6.4 The Mu-Function -- 6.5 The "Ballading" of the Jackdaws -- 6.6 The Absence of a "Not" in Analog Communication -- 6.7 Left and Right Hemispheres -- Chapter 7: G. Spencer Brown on the Paradoxes of "Not" - And Gregory Bateson on the Richness of Analog Communication -- 7.1 Further Spencer Brown on the Peculiarities of the "Not" Message -- 7.2 Spencer Brownian Communion and the "Restricted Code" -- 7.2.1 The Communicational Richness of (Human) Interaction: A Partial Digression -- 7.3 The Cybernetics of Human Talk: Interaction Analysis, 2008 -- 7.4 The Cybernetics of Human Talk: The Natural History of an Interview, 1955-1971 -- 7.5 Transmutation of Freudian Concepts into Communication Theory -- 7.6 Kinesic Speculations -- 7.7 Lack of Translatability.

Human survival requires a reorientation of science away from its exclusive technical and materialist premises focused on control, towards feedback and relational processes of organism-plus-environment. Gregory Bateson's holistic approach unites culture, communication, psychology, biology and ecology within a single trans-disciplinary enquiry substituting pattern, perceptual difference, and relations for 'thinginess' of scientific data