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The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.
Gregory Bateson
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Gregory Bateson
Age: 76 †
Born: 1904
Born: May 9
Died: 1980
Died: July 4
Anthropologist
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Grantchester
Cambridgeshire
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