"Synaptic summation is the technical term used in……" — Gregory Bateson
"Synaptic summation is the technical term used in neurophysiology for those instances in which some neuron C is fired only by a combination of neurons A and B."
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46 Quotes by Gregory Bateson
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All experience is subjective.
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Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate…
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Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes…
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Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money.
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To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at…
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Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.
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Most of us have lost that sense of unity of biosphere and humanity which would bind and reassure us all…
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Some tools of thought are so blunt that they are almost useless; others are so sharp that they are dangerous.…
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Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful.
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The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people…
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Desired substance, things, patterns, or sequences of experience that are in some sense "good" for the organism - items of…
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There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can…
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What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.
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