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Desired Substance, Things, Patterns, Or Sequences Of Experience That Are In Some Sense "good" For The Organism - Items Of Diet, Conditions Of Life, Temperature, Entertainment, Sex, And So Forth - Are Never Such That More Of The Something Is Always Better Than Less Of The Something. Rather, For All Objects And Experiences, There Is A Quantity That Has Optimum Value. Above That Quantity, The Variable Becomes Toxic. To Fall Below That Value Is To Be Deprived.
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Desired Substance, Things, Patterns, Or

Gregory Bateson
Desired Substance, Things, Patterns, Or Sequences Of Experience That Are In Some Sense "good" For The Organism - Items Of Diet, Conditions Of Life, Temperature, Entertainment, Sex, And So Forth - Are Never Such That More Of The Something Is Always Better Than Less Of The Something. Rather, For All Objects And Experiences, There Is A Quantity That Has Optimum Value. Above That Quantity, The Variable Becomes Toxic. To Fall Below That Value Is To Be Deprived.
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