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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

p. 64. aceA no manams . . . past and future" A A A 6. Wittgenstein, op. cit., p. 116e, pares. 662-64. acea seeing into . . . past to us.A A A A 7 Ludwig Wittgenstein, Traciatus Logico-Philosophicus, trans.D. F. Pears and B. F. McGuiness (New York: The Humanities Press, 1960), p. 13, pan. 5.4732. finpoint is that

AAA 1. Sir James Jeans, The Mysterious Universe (New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1932), pp. 117r18. aceEntia non sum . takes something away.1 AAA 2. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Zettel, eds. G. E. M. Anscombe and G. H. von Wright, trans. G. E. M. Anscombe (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967), p. 73e, para. 410.

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,

ley-Jones, John Lucas, Carlos Castenedas, SA¶ren Kierkegaard, Wilder Penfield, R. G. Bickford, Edmund Carpenter, Werner Heisenberg, Sir James Jeans, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Wallace Stevens, Leon Brillouin, T. S. Eliot, I. A. Richards, Gertrude Stein, Max Born, J. Andrade e Silva, P. W. Bridgman, R. Buckminster Fuller,

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

al, but also its format and layout. Each page contains a single paragraph comprised partly of quotes from works by figures from Marshall McLuhan to Ludwig Wittgenstein, Samuel Beckett and E. E. Cummings, that is disconnected from its predecessor. A front-page review in the San Francisco Review of Books stated: In