Epstein Secrets

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,

. Hulme, Simone Weil, Samuel Beckett, David Pears, Main Robbe-Grillet, Victor Gioscia, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Norman 0. Brown, William Shakespeare, E. E. Cummings, Paul Valery, Ezra Pound, Henry Miller. These words belong to the reader. JOHN BROCKMAN EFTA_R1_02124764 EFTA02711248

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

ett, The Unnamable, op. cit., p. 390 aceThe thing said . . . a common source.fi A A n Shakespeare, aceA world full. . . signifying nothing" A A 28. E. E. Cummings, / (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1969), p. 69. in any number of . . . ficepastA ficepresentA or ficefuture" A A 29. Hulme, Speculations, p.

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

h 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 short, sharp strokes of words, he b