Gregory Bateson (9 May 1904 – 4 July 1980) was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician, and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. His writings include Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972) and Mind and Nature (1979).
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Gregory Bateson topic overview
The analysis highlights Works, Career, Cultures and Science as prominent areas in the source structure around Gregory Bateson.
Related topics
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Source areas
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Connected nodes
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Extracted relationships
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Concept neighborhoods
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Bridge connections
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What this topic covers Research coverage
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Work · 44 topics
Career · 21 topics
Overview · 14 topics
Early life and education · 12 topics
Personal life · 10 topics
Philosophy · 1 topics
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Key facts & relationships
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Known for
Double bind, ecology of mind, deuterolearning, schismogenesis
Born
(1904-05-09)9 May 1904 Grantchester, England
Children
5, including Mary C. Bateson
Died
4 July 1980(1980-07-04) (aged 76) San Francisco, California, U.S.
Father
William Bateson
Fields
Anthropology, social sciences, linguistics, cybernetics, systems theory
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How Gregory Bateson connects Entity context
Entity context groups extracted connections by relationship type. Counts show recurrence in the analyzed source; the examples are research signals, not claims about importance.
The extracted context around Gregory Bateson shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Gregory Bateson → About Bateson, Aesthetics, Alessandra, America, Anabasi, Angels Fear, Anthropology, Attraverso Bateson, Balinese Character, Balinese Paintings Made, Bateson, Bateson's Naven, Batesonian, Batesonian Philosophy, Batesoniana Polonica, Bayung Gede, Beacon Press, Beauty, Benjamin, Bertrando Another extracted example is Gregory Bateson → Absurdity, Aesthetics, Alive, American Anthropologist, An, An Introduction, Anatol Holt, Anthro-L, Anthropology, Applied Anthropology, April, Arts, August, Australian, Australian Humanities Review, Bale, Bateson, Bateson's Assessment, Bateson's Epistemology, Bateson's Ideas. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
Gregory Bateson → Absurdity, Aesthetics, Alive, American Anthropologist, An, An Introduction, Anatol Holt, Anthro-L, Anthropology, Applied Anthropology, April, Arts, August, Australian, Australian Humanities Review, Bale, Bateson, Bateson's Assessment, Bateson's Epistemology, Bateson's Ideas
Relatives· 7
Gregory Bateson → Anna Bateson (botanist) (aunt), Anna Bateson (grandmother), Florence Margaret Durham (aunt), Margaret Heitland (aunt), Mary Bateson (aunt), William Emerton Heitland (uncle), William Henry Bateson (grandfather)
related to External links· 4
Gregory Bateson → Bateson Idea Group, IMDb, Intercultural StudiesGregory Bateson, International Bateson InstituteInstitute
Born· 1
Gregory Bateson → (1904-05-09)9 May 1904 Grantchester, England
Children· 1
Gregory Bateson → 5, including Mary C. Bateson
Died· 1
Gregory Bateson → 4 July 1980(1980-07-04) (aged 76) San Francisco, California, U.S.
Father· 1
Gregory Bateson → William Bateson
Fields· 1
Gregory Bateson → Anthropology, social sciences, linguistics, cybernetics, systems theory
Known for· 1
Gregory Bateson → Double bind, ecology of mind, deuterolearning, schismogenesis
Important terminology
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Relationships are represented as Subject → Predicate → Object triples. Confidence describes extraction strength, not the real-world importance of a relationship; lower-confidence rows may be contextual rather than explicit.
TTTA extracted 477 structured relationships around Gregory Bateson. Examples in this analysis include Gregory Bateson → Born → (1904-05-09)9 May 1904 Grantchester, England and Gregory Bateson → Children → 5, including Mary C. Bateson. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
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Born
(1904-05-09)9 May 1904 Grantchester, England
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Gregory Bateson
Children
5, including Mary C. Bateson
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Gregory Bateson
Died
4 July 1980(1980-07-04) (aged 76) San Francisco, California, U.S.
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Gregory Bateson
Father
William Bateson
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Gregory Bateson
Fields
Anthropology, social sciences, linguistics, cybernetics, systems theory
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Gregory Bateson
Known for
Double bind, ecology of mind, deuterolearning, schismogenesis
Concept neighborhoods group terms that sit near one another in the extracted graph. They are useful for discovering adjacent language and context, but proximity does not by itself imply a factual relationship.
The concept neighborhoods around Gregory Bateson bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Gregory, Bateson's and Mead. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges
Semantic bridges connect parts of the graph that would otherwise be more separate. A bridge is a structural signal in this analysis, not a claim that the two topic areas are equivalent.
For Gregory Bateson, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Gregory Bateson with Work. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.
Gregory Bateson
Nodes134
Edges133
Triples477
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.014925
Components1
Source & methodology
TTTA analyzes the structure around Gregory Bateson to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Works, Career, Cultures & Science, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
