Gregory Bateson : Steps to An Ecology of Mind This cannot at present be clearly documented for sexual relations, but there are indications that a plateau type of sequence is characteristic for trance and for quarrels." It is possible that some sort of continuing plateau of intensity is substituted for climax as the child becomes more fully adjusted to Balinese life. The perhaps basically human tendency towards cumulative personal interaction is thus muted. These sequences can be seen either as an expression of the mother’s distaste for this type of personal involvement or as context in which the child acquires a deep distrust of such involvement. The mother will either play a spectator’s role, enjoying the child’s tantrum, or, if the child actually attacks her, will brush off his attack with no show of anger on her part. At this point the child will typically start an alternative cumulative interaction, building up toward temper tantrum. Then just as the child, approaching some small climax, flings its arms around the mother’s neck, her attention wanders. This will excite the child, and for a few moments cumulative interaction will occur. " Typically, the mother will start a small flirtation with the child, pulling its penis or otherwise stimulating it to interpersonal activity. His explanation lies in the way that children are brought up in Bali: He says that Balinese drama and music are characterised by an almost complete absence of climaxes and that Balinese daily life has mechanisms for resolving disagreements which mean that they almost never become fights or civil disputes. [Incidentally, and in the process, Bateson makes a fascinating observation about Balinese culture (which has been contested by some as a general principle but not as an ethnographic observation). Bateson called the former symmetrical schismogenesis and the latter complementary schismogenesis. The feedback effect was first written about by Norbert Wiener and developed in its application to social settings by Gregory Bateson (in Steps to an Ecology of Mind) who compared the (competitive) positive feedback that leads to an arms race to the (modulating) negative feedback that exists in a sado-masochistic relationship, where both parties needs are met by the behaviour of the other. Today, feedback effects are often talked about in the context of global warming and we are broadly aware of positive and negative feedback effects: the former tend to amplify small changes or differences, while the latter tend to lessen changes or differences.
It’s what makes the awful screeching noising on a PA or other amplified sound system system. How we generate plateaux of intensity and the race to the bottom.Įveryone has a sense of what a feedback loop is.
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