“Our initial sensory data are always "first derivatives," statements about differences which exist among external objects or statements about changes which occur either in them or in our relationship to them. Objects and circumstances which remain absolutely constant relative to the observer, unchanged either by his own movement or by external events, are in general difficult and perhaps always impossible to perceive. What we perceive easily is difference and change and difference is a relationship.” FirstsDifficultDifferencesImpossibleEventsMovementObjectsCircumstancesConstantStatementsDataPerceiveRelativeOur RelationshipObserversInitialsSensoryDerivatives Book:Communication: The Social Matrix of Psychiatry Source: Communication: The Social Matrix of Psychiatry
“What we mean by information - the elementary unit of information - is a difference which makes a difference, and it is able to make a difference because the neural pathways along which it travels and is continually transformed are themselves provided with energy. The pathways are ready to be triggered. We may even say that the question is already implicit in them.” MayMeanAbleEnergyDifferencesInformationReadyMaking A DifferenceTransformedUnitsPathwaysImplicit Author:Gregory Bateson
“Information consists of differences that make a difference.” DifferencesInformationMaking A Difference Author:Gregory Bateson
“The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayProblemNatureDifferencesResultsEnvironmentMajorsEnvironmentalEcologyAnthropologyMajor Problems Author:Gregory Bateson
“Information is a difference that makes a difference.” DifferencesInformationMaking A Difference Author:Gregory Bateson
