Epstein Secrets

ences born to weigh in and consider intelligences made. Enough of "Al". There's nothing "artificial" about what we make, including knowledge. It was Gertrude Stein who pointed out the tautology of knowledge when she wrote: "How can you know more than you do know". I want to expand group of participants in my b

nicely put in the first blurb for the book, from Stewart Brand: "Intelligences born and intelligences made have

Bickford, Edmund Carpenter, Werner Heisenberg, Sir James Jeans, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Wallace Stevens, Leon Brillouin, T. S. Eliot, I. A. Richards, Gertrude Stein, Max Born, J. Andrade e Silva, P. W. Bridgman, R. Buckminster Fuller, Sir Arthur Eddington, William Empson, C. G. Jung, Bertrand Russell, William Bu

r 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, W. Grey Walter, Kenneth Sayre, Rene Descartes, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Niels Bohr, Rene Dub

y Complementarities" in The Screens and Other Poems (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, (1960), p. 34. ace Where you end . . . draw a line" A A jj, Gertrude Stein, Lectures in America (Boston: Beacon Press 1935), pp. 209-10. ficeA noun is . . . write about it.fi A A n Eliot, ficeFour Quartets" op. cit., p. 126

nding Media: The Extensions of Man (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964), p.26. keEffect involves the . . . of information movement.' A A A 9. Stuart Brand, correspondence. AceAll thataTMs traceably ... except through effects.' A A J.. Heinz von Foerster, aceLogical Structure of Environment and Its Inte

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

. John Lilly discusses maps of reality. Karl =ribram explores new possibilities for thinking about neuroscience. Ram =ass presents a spiritual path. Stewart Brand lectures on whole systems. =sychologists Will Schutz, Claudio Naranjo, and Charles Tart are in =ttendance. Heinz von Foerster holds forth on cybern

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

window into the cold room. Wiping it off, I saw “the” computer. I fell in love. Later, in the Fall of 1967, I went to Menlo Park to spend time with Stewart Brand, whom I had met in New York in 1965 when he was a satellite member of the USCO group of artists. Now, with his wife Lois, a mathematician, he was pre

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

window into the cold room. Wiping it off, I saw “the” computer. I fell in love. Later, in the Fall of 1967, I went to Menlo Park to spend time with Stewart Brand, whom I had met in New York in 1965 when he was a satellite member of the USCO group of artists. Now, with his wife Lois, a mathematician, he was pre