Ecology of Restraints: a commentary to Cybernetic Explanation by Gregory Bateson

Authors

  • Dmitry Testov

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54359/ps.v12i67-68.221

Abstract

The article is an extended commentary to the “Cybernetic Explanation” by Gregory Bateson. In the focus of the author’s attention are three types of restraints by the analysis of which - according to Bateson - a negative explanation should be constructed: the restraints related to the limited economics of alternatives, the restraints related to the redundancy and to the feedback.

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Author Biography

  • Dmitry Testov
    Testov Dmitry Farukovich. Junior Research Associate of the Department of Analytical Anthropology. Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, 12/1, ul. Goncharnaya, 109240 Moscow, Russia. Assistant of the Department of Humanities. Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation. 49, Leningradsky Prospect, 125993 Moscow, Russia. E-mail: testwisdomry@gmail.com

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Published

2019-12-29

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 67-68 (2019)

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Testov, D. (2019). Ecology of Restraints: a commentary to Cybernetic Explanation by Gregory Bateson. Psychological Studies, 12(67-68). https://doi.org/10.54359/ps.v12i67-68.221