Epstein Secrets

d systems—1* order Cybernetics— moved to the Cybernetics of observing systems—2"™ order Cybernetics—or “the Cybernetics of Cybernetics”, as coined by Heinz von Foerster, who joined the Macy conferences in the mid 1950s, and spearheaded the new movement. Cybernetics, rather than disappearing, was becoming metabolized

ing a place to begin. New Technologies=New Perceptions Before AI, there was Cybernetics—the idea of automatic, self-regulating control, laid out in Norbert Wiener’s foundational text of 1948. I can date my own serious exposure to it to 1966, when the composer John Cage invited me and four or five other young arts

ge making, creativity, and the use of programming as artistic tools. The deep connections between science and art had already been noted by the late Heinz von Foerster, one of the architects of cybernetics, who worked with Norbert Wiener from the mid-1940s and in the 1960s founded the field of second-order cyberneti

agic or mysticism of an earlier age— as by their modern-sounding insights. I detect that same doubleness—the zig-zag origami folds of old and new—in Norbert Wiener’s classic The Human Use of Human Beings. First published in 1950 and revised in 1954, the book is in many ways extraordinarily prescient. Wiener, the M

d systems—1* order Cybernetics— moved to the Cybernetics of observing systems—2"™ order Cybernetics—or “the Cybernetics of Cybernetics”, as coined by Heinz von Foerster, who joined the Macy conferences in the mid 1950s, and spearheaded the new movement. Cybernetics, rather than disappearing, was becoming metabolized

ing a place to begin. New Technologies=New Perceptions Before AI, there was Cybernetics—the idea of automatic, self-regulating control, laid out in Norbert Wiener’s foundational text of 1948. I can date my own serious exposure to it to 1966, when the composer John Cage invited me and four or five other young arts

ge making, creativity, and the use of programming as artistic tools. The deep connections between science and art had already been noted by the late Heinz von Foerster, one of the architects of cybernetics, who worked with Norbert Wiener from the mid-1940s and in the 1960s founded the field of second-order cyberneti

agic or mysticism of an earlier age— as by their modern-sounding insights. I detect that same doubleness—the zig-zag origami folds of old and new—in Norbert Wiener’s classic The Human Use of Human Beings. First published in 1950 and revised in 1954, the book is in many ways extraordinarily prescient. Wiener, the M