Mind, Ecology, Enaction: Encounters between Bateson and Varela

In this conversation, Evan Thompson, Bruce Clarke, and Dulmini Perera explore the relationships between Bateson and Varela's work, particularly the ways in which their work contributed to expanding our understanding of the 'mind' in the context of living. Starting from their time at Lindisfarne Association in the 1970s, a context that had multiple relationships to their intellectual projects, we will explore how they reformulated concepts such as wholes, boundaries, and recursion in their respective critiques of mainstream Western science/epistemology. The discussion would end with a focus on action. How does their expansion of the notions of 'cognition', 'mind', and consciousness' enable us to think about (design) action within the context of the present ecological crises? This event is a collaboration between the Speaker Series of the American Society of Cybernetics(ASC) and the Enacting Ecological Aesthetics(EEA) project. PowerPoint prepared by Bruce Clarke and Dulmini Perera: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19OVa... Chat link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1opo2...