Nancy Reilly

“When we think of coconuts or pigs, there are no coconuts or pigs in the brain.”
― Gregory Bateson, Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity

“It is as if the stuff of which we are made were totally transparent and therefore imperceptible and as if the only appearances of which we can be aware are cracks and planes of fracture in that transparent matrix. Dreams and percepts and stories are perhaps cracks and irregularities in the uniform and timeless matrix. Was this what Plotinus meant by an 'invisible and unchanging beauty which pervades all things'?”
― Gregory Bateson, Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity

“Information is a difference that makes a difference.”
― Gregory Bateson