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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
March 1973 in Big 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
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
hers, psychologists, and scientists, each of whom asked to lecture on his own work in terms of its relationship to the ideas of British mathematician G. Spencer Brown presented in his book, Laws of Form. I was a bit puzzled when I received an invitation—a very late invitation indeed— which they explained was based
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
hers, psychologists, and scientists, each of whom asked to lecture on his own work in terms of its relationship to the ideas of British mathematician G. Spencer Brown presented in his book, Laws of Form. I was a bit puzzled when I received an invitation—a very late invitation indeed— which they explained was based
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