Epstein Secrets

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

audio Naranjo, and Charles Tart are in =ttendance. Heinz von Foerster holds forth on cybernetic modeling. My =wn topic is "Einstein, Gertrude Stein, Wittgenstein, and Frankenstein." Perhaps, of all the "Masters" present, Gregory Bateson, at sixty-eight, =s at once the best known and the least known. Among hi

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

e a phony.” “And, John”, he continued, Iam a phony. But John, Iam a real phony!” The next day I gave my lecture, entitled "Einstein, Gertrude Stein, Wittgenstein, and Frankenstein." Einstein: the revolution in 20" century physics; Gertrude Stein: the first writer who made integral to her work the idea of an in

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

e a phony.” “And, John”, he continued, Iam a phony. But John, Iam a real phony!” The next day I gave my lecture, entitled "Einstein, Gertrude Stein, Wittgenstein, and Frankenstein." Einstein: the revolution in 20" century physics; Gertrude Stein: the first writer who made integral to her work the idea of an in