Gregory Bateson and

.....the double bind as constituting an entirely new, non-material, principle of evolution, major conceptual revisions may need to be made in our general understanding of evolution as contained within the “modern evolutionary synthesis”.

KEYWORDS:
behavior, communication, context, contradiction, deutero-learning, double bind, epistemology, evolution, incompleteness theorum, kinesics, learning, logical type theory, metacommunication, metamessages, metatheory, mystification, paradox, relationships, schismogenesis, schizophrenia,  scientific elegance, symmathesy, teleology, temporality, transcontextual, transdisciplinary, trauma

During the 1980s, Julien Jalâl Ed-Dine Weiss, founder of the Al-Kindi ensemble of Aleppo, invented a qānūn in just intonation with which he attempted to solve a major discrepancy between the theory and practice of maqām-scales. Weiss objected to the introduction of Western standards, observing that they distort the significance of interval ratios and prevent a comparative understanding of the modal system as a transnational phenomenon. In the twentieth century, the implementation of equal-semitone temperament emerged simultaneously with a notable invasion of sociological criteria into musical inquiry. The polarity observed between westernisation and tradition can be seen most visibly in the present search for identity amongst Middle-and Near-Eastern musicians, but this schismogenic process can also be observed in the history of the Western avant-garde, where microtonal explorations have been halted in favour of extra-musical conceptuality. While cross-cultural musicians are faced with a new climate of distrust, it seems most likely that the principles that draw us apart may originate in the very patterns of thought in which our notion of culture operates. Weiss's tuning system may serve as a helpful tool to foster a new and universal epistemology of tone, bridging and transcending the apparent contradictions between the two spheres.

PPT My anthropological career is coming around.. at last ...in one (of four) book and two (of forty) papers:
a) Young Men as Whistleblowers: An Anthropological Gaze at Failing Institutions & Transitional Spaces (22 papers on troubled/troubling young men in The Netherlands, December 2017 in Dutch!)
b) Beauty & Grace in Making Artefacts: An Anthropological Gaze Upon Crafting in the World
(in: Burke C., Spencer-Wood S. (eds) Crafting in the World. Materiality in the Making, Springer, 2018)
c) The texs written from this presentation: Beauty & Grace in Co-creating Transitional Spaces
(presentation at “Ästhetikern des Heilens/Aesthetics of Healing: Working with the Senses in Therapeutic Contexts”, 32nd Annual Conference of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnologie und Medizin e.V. (AGEM) in Cooperation with the Institute of Ethnology University of Münster May 24-26, 2019, Münster Germany)

(Abstract pertains to the whole project, not merely this introductory section)

Uncovering the legacy of Gregory Bateson:

(a) Re-contextualizing the double bind theory of "schizophrenia"

(b) The dual nature of the new recursive cybernetic epistemology:

(i) [Local Epistemology] ('e'pistemology)
      - personal and cultural
    (Ontology now subsumed within 'e'pistemological "Patterns of Search")

(ii) [Meta Epistemology] ('E'pistemology)
      - abstract tautological fundamentals and formal regularities
    (as with all scientific theories --without exception-- not a priori, but created by a  human subject)

(iii) Recursiveness of Epistemology:
      ......Local Epistemology.......Meta Epistemology.......Local Epistemology.......Meta Epistemology........and so on ad infinitum

(iii) The double bind as the very kernel of the new recursive epistemology.
      -Taken together, in their entirety, we have the outlines of a solution to the mind-body problem. Or to put this another way, through an overt utilization of the method of "double description" (arising through the evolutionary advantage afforded to us in binocular vision) we perceive difference by comparing materialistic monism with idealistic monism. This going above, or beyond, is meta to the binary positions and, with the assistance of cybernetics, leads to an integral postdualistic monism.