Editing Double bind (section)

== Double binds in science ==

One of the causes of double binds is the loss of feedback systems. Gregory Bateson and Lawrence S. Bale describe double binds that have arisen in science that have caused decades-long delays of progress in science because the scientific community had defined something as outside of its scope (or as "not science")<ref>{{cite book |last=Bateson |first=Gregory |chapter=Introduction |title=[[Steps to an Ecology of Mind]] |orig-year=1972 |year=2000 |pages=xv–xxvi}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Bale |title=Gregory Bateson, Cybernetics and the Social/Behavioral Sciences |pages=1–8}}</ref> on the paradigm of classical science versus that of systems theory and cybernetics. (See the foreword to ''Steps to an Ecology of Mind'' for Bateson's account of the development of the double bind hypothesis.)