Levels as Hierarchical ↑

metanymous 04 января 2018, 10:24 в посте Metapractice (оригинал в ЖЖ)

Bateson noted that the term meta creates a hierarchic series whether we are speaking about “change,” “learning,” “contexts,” etc.

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“Within the field of pure communication theory, the steps of an hierarchic series may be constructed by successive use of the word ‘about,’ or ‘meta.’ Our hierarchical series will consist of message, meta-message, meta-meta-message, and so on.” (1972, p. 247-8)

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He also noted that with the meta level structures that’s within communication and consciousness there are inherent complications.

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“Further complications are added … by noting that message may be about (or ‘meta’ to) the relationship between messages of different levels. … In human relations another sort of complexity may be generated; e.g., message may be emitted forbidding the subject to make the meta connection. … The hierarchy of messages and contexts thus becomes a complex branching structure.” (1972, p. 248)