「double description, relationship」

 

 

 

Learning the context of life is a matter 
that has to be discussed, not internally,
but as a matter of the external relationship between two creatures.
And relationship is always a product of doble description.
It is correct (and a great improvement) to begin to
think of the two parties to the interaction as two eyes,
each giving a monocular view of what goes on and, together,
giving a binocular view in depth.
This double view is the relationship.
                              
                                            ──G.Bateson, Mind and Nature