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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
.org, an important platform for the exchange of knowledge between different fields that aims ficeto arrive at the edge of the worldaTMs knowledge.a Stewart Brand has called Brockman an aceintellectual enzyme . . . an adroit enabler of otherwise impossible things.fi As Brockman himself puts it, ace' look to .
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
. John Lilly discusses maps of reality. Karl =ribram explores new possibilities for thinking about neuroscience. Ram =ass presents a spiritual path. Stewart Brand lectures on whole systems. =sychologists Will Schutz, Claudio Naranjo, and Charles Tart are in =ttendance. Heinz von Foerster holds forth on cybern
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
window into the cold room. Wiping it off, I saw “the” computer. I fell in love. Later, in the Fall of 1967, I went to Menlo Park to spend time with Stewart Brand, whom I had met in New York in 1965 when he was a satellite member of the USCO group of artists. Now, with his wife Lois, a mathematician, he was pre
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
window into the cold room. Wiping it off, I saw “the” computer. I fell in love. Later, in the Fall of 1967, I went to Menlo Park to spend time with Stewart Brand, whom I had met in New York in 1965 when he was a satellite member of the USCO group of artists. Now, with his wife Lois, a mathematician, he was pre
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