Epstein Secrets

e =ork of British mathematician G. Spencer Brown. Alan Watts and John =illy, the coorganizers, are bill

Will Schutz, Claudio 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 kn

ok an interest in evolutionary biology. My friend Alan Rogers, a population geneticist | didn’t know all

s, which disapprove of logical certitude on grounds not clear to me. They are wrong. A rose is a rose. Nor are all examples as inane as that one from Gertrude Stein. All of math is derived as logical certitude. Its proof comes from analysis, not experiment. Proof of Fermat’s last theorem eluded some of the finest

ed journal, and remains uncited as far as I know. Alan Rogers, a biologist at University of Utah, publis

ving if and only if Aristotle was right. Natural selection simply means the untestable but little-doubted theory of causality. Spencer or Darwin or Gertrude Stein might be faulted for insulting our intelligence by stating the obvious. That shoe would fit Gertrude Stein. But Spencer and Darwin, like the little b

nd Atoms. He is the author of AB, co-author (with Alan Gershenfeld & Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld) of Design

accent, “you are 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

nd Atoms. He is the author of AB, co-author (with Alan Gershenfeld & Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld) of Design

accent, “you are 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