Epstein Secrets

r anymore than they belong to the people quoted in the book: Norbert Wiener, Karl Lashley, George Kubler, J. Z. Young, John Lilly, Marshall McLuhan, Stewart Brand, Heinz von Foerster, Edward T. Hall, Alfred North Whitehead, W. Grey Walter, Kenneth Sayre, Rene Descartes, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Niels Bohr, Rene Dub

DEDICATION THESE WORDS DO not belong to the author anymore than they belong to the people quoted in the book: Norbert Wiener, Karl Lashley, George Kubler, J. Z. Young, John Lilly, Marshall McLuhan, Stewart Brand, Heinz von Foerster, Edward T. Hall, Alfred North Whitehead,

nding Media: The Extensions of Man (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964), p.26. keEffect involves the . . . of information movement.' A A A 9. Stuart Brand, correspondence. AceAll thataTMs traceably ... except through effects.' A A J.. Heinz von Foerster, aceLogical Structure of Environment and Its Inte

ling of Mind Computers and Intelligence (New York: Simon and Schuster, Inc., 1968), p. 255. for any formal system . . . within the system. A A 35. Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics (Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press, 1967), p. 199. kelt is important . . . the imposed disturbance)* A A 36. Carlos Castenedas, The Teach

.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 .

hird investigates the limits of words as tools for understanding. When Heinz von Foerster, an architect of cybernetics, along with Warren McCulloch, Norbert Wiener, and John von Neumann, reviewed the trilogy in 1973, he commented: Brockman takes the mystery of language and puts it right back into its own myste

durch den wissenschaftlichen Text, zusammen mit Stewart Brand, seinem Freund. der bald den Whole Earth Cata- l

mehr mit Brockman. Was der lange nicht begreifen konnte. John, das ist Zen", er- klärte ihm schließlich ein Freund. "Du brauchst ihn nicht mehr? Norbert Wiener hieß der Autor, „Kyber- netik, Regelung und Nachrichtenübertra- gung in Lebewesen und Maschine" das Buch. Seite um Seite kämpfte sich Brock- man dur