# Gregory Bateson **Domain:** Anthropology / Cybernetics **Doc Type:** Person **Maturity:** Developed **Related:** [[Macy Conferences]], [[Cybernetics]], [[Feedback Loops]], [[Schedule and Loop]] ## Definition Gregory Bateson was an anthropologist and systems thinker who applied cybernetic ideas to communication, learning, relationship and ecology. ## Schedule–Loop Context Bateson extends the loop beyond machinery: behavior becomes intelligible within recursive relations and communicative contexts rather than as an isolated response surface. ## Backlinks - [[Schedule and Loop]] - [[articles/Schedule and Loop|Schedule and Loop]] - [[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]]