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son, Margaret Mead, and Heinz von Foerster,a remarked Brockman. In April of that year, a group that included von Foerster, Bateson, Zen philosopher Alan Watts, and dolphin researcher John Lilly convened the legendary AUM (ficeAmerican University of Mastersa) Conference in Big Sur to study G. Spencer Browne

one in the same. They were henceforth to be considered as a single circuit. aoelt was only after Afterwards was published in early 1973 that i met Gregory Bateson, Margaret Mead, and Heinz von Foerster,a remarked Brockman. In April of that year, a group that included von Foerster, Bateson, Zen philosopher Ala

Sur. California. A diverse =roup of thinkers are assembled to spend ten days together exploring the =ork of British mathematician G. Spencer Brown. Alan Watts and John =illy, the coorganizers, are billing the event as "The AUM Conference." =horthand for The American University of Masters. They have gather

ds forth on cybernetic modeling. My =wn topic is "Einstein, Gertrude Stein, Wittgenstein, and Frankenstein." Perhaps, of all the "Masters" present, Gregory Bateson, at sixty-eight, =s at once the best known and the least known. Among his assembled =eers, his reputation is formidable. At the AUM Conference, stor

ation twice a day. During the year, Spiegelberg sponsored a visit by the aging but still very lively Aldous Huxley to our seminar. He also brought us Alan Watts and several lecturers from the Jung Institute of San Francisco. Shortly after hearing Huxley talk about the spiritual power of a particular exercise

c and strong and weak nuclear forces), and yet it was the physicists that already believed them who designed the machines to demonstrate them. It was Gregory Bateson, Margaret Mead’s houseboy, lover, photographer and social anthropologist who said, “Newton didn’t discover gravity, he invented it.” One college sum

ing about these issues at the time was on the radar screen of the 2"4 order Cybernetics crowd, including Heinz von Foerster as well as John Lilly and Alan Watts, who were the co-organizers of something called "The AUM Conference," shorthand for “The American University of Masters”, which took place in Big Sur

nce I had an MBA from Colombia Business School, and a series of relative successes in business, I was dragooned into becoming an agent, initially for Gregory Bateson and John Lilly, whose books I sold quickly, and for sums that caught my attention, thus kick-starting my career as a literary agent. I never did mee

ing about these issues at the time was on the radar screen of the 2"4 order Cybernetics crowd, including Heinz von Foerster as well as John Lilly and Alan Watts, who were the co-organizers of something called "The AUM Conference," shorthand for “The American University of Masters”, which took place in Big Sur

nce I had an MBA from Colombia Business School, and a series of relative successes in business, I was dragooned into becoming an agent, initially for Gregory Bateson and John Lilly, whose books I sold quickly, and for sums that caught my attention, thus kick-starting my career as a literary agent. I never did mee