Gregory Bateson (1904 - 1980) was an interdisciplinary anthropologist, social scientist, systems thinker, linguist, anthropologist, and cyberneticist. His other writings include Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972) and Mind and Nature (1979). Bateson's interest in systems theory forms a thread running through his work. He was one of the original members of the core group of the Macy conferences in Cybernetics. Phillip Guddemi was an undergraduate student of Gregory Bateson's at the University of California, Santa Cruz in the middle 1970s. He has published a number of peer-reviewed articles dealing with Gregory Bateson's work. He is also an anthropologist who has worked in Papua New Guinea and Macedonia; and he is currently President of the Bateson Idea Group and one of the board members for the International Bateson Institute. Gregory Bateson (1904 - 1980) was an interdisciplinary anthropologist, social scientist, systems thinker, linguist, anthropologist, and cyberneticist. His other writings include Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972) and Mind and Nature (1979). Bateson's interest in systems theory forms a thread running through his work. He was one of the original members of the core group of the Macy conferences in Cybernetics.