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Bateson divided the world between the mind and the purely physical. Mind is found in living cells, organisms, populations, ecosystems, governments, businesses, and even certain instruments—for example thermostats.
His criteria are that a mind is an aggregate of interacting parts, the interactions being triggered by difference; that it needs collateral energy; that the interactions are circular or more complex; the effects of difference are coded versions of the events that preceded them (light from a source stimulates a retina to signal a brain which interprets and stores an memory of an image). The last criterion, "The description and classification of these processes of transformation disclose a hierarchy of logical types immanent in the phenomena," might require explanation. In the example of an eye "seeing" an object, each stage becomes a little more abstract than the one before it. We really don't know what the object is, but the image or its memory allows us to operate in the world.
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