In “Where the Sea Meets the Land: Remembering Gregory Bateson” the author discusses patterns of thinking and how we have lost our very basic roots with nature. She lingers on how we have a way of communication by analyzing the relationships between things and whether or not they are directly related.
In “Slippery Rigor” Nora discusses the relationships between things and her father’s way of thinking. By approaching a subject at numerous angles you can gather an infinite number of patterns or answers. By looking at something a thousand different ways you can widen your perspective.
In “Introduction” the author stresses the importance of having a wide perspective and to consider all the possibilities. By maintaining a wide perspective, we can always think up new solutions when old ones stop working and by doing to continue to move forward. The world is constantly changing so we need to learn to adapt to these changes and remain flexible to what the world throws at us. The author also tells us that everything overlaps creating complexity, making it simple would be preposterous since we rely on other things to define it. It is the connections between things and around things that really defines the world. Organization does not really exist either as it must remain fluid and become a paradox in order for it to be organized.
After watching “An Ecology of Mind” I understand at what these various authors are trying to portray. Everything is constantly changing and if we don’t change with it, then we are going to be left behind because our old way of thinking no longer works. To define things for practicality we separate ourselves rather than think of the relationships between them to define them. With this way of thinking we can open and widen our perspectives to unimaginable planes but we don’t. Why?