Epstein Secrets

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stein Jeffrey Subject: about the AUM CONFERENCE https://edge.org/conversation/gregory-bateson-the-centennial (JOHN BROCKMAN:) It is 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

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

n Watts, who were the co-organizers of something called "The AUM Conference," shorthand for “The American University of Masters”, which took place in Big Sur in 1973, a gathering of philosophers, psychologists, and scientists, each of whom asked to lecture on his own work in terms of its relationship to th

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

n Watts, who were the co-organizers of something called "The AUM Conference," shorthand for “The American University of Masters”, which took place in Big Sur in 1973, a gathering of philosophers, psychologists, and scientists, each of whom asked to lecture on his own work in terms of its relationship to th