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The Minds of Men

Also attending was a young Dr. Frank Ervin who recently transferred from Tulane, working...

Also attending was a young Dr. Frank Ervin who recently transferred from Tulane, working with Dr. Heath to take over the Stanley Cobb Chair of Psychiatry at Mass General

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Also attending was a young Dr. Frank Ervin
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who recently transferred from Tulane, working with Dr. Heath
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to take over the Stanley Cobb Chair of Psychiatry at Mass General.
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14 seconds
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Timestamp in Movie
02:58:19
Uploaded
Jul 01, 2025
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documentary
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"The Minds of Men" is a 3+ year investigation into the experimentation, art, and practice of social engineering and mind control during the Cold War - a mind-bending journey into the past that gives startling insight into the worl...
Dr. Cobb marked 1958 as a watershed year - The Minds of Men 00:31
Dr. Cobb marked 1958 as a watershed year
This new core of knowledge replaced the classical understanding of the brain. - The Minds of Men 00:07
This new core of knowledge replaced the classical...
It would now be treated as a "biocomputer" – to be scanned, screened, decoded, - The Minds of Men 00:11
It would now be treated as a "biocomputer" – to be...
Narrator: Norbert Wiener had first attempted to tackle what would become his greatest challenge - The Minds of Men 00:18
Narrator: Norbert Wiener had first attempted to tackle what...
Later noting a similarity between the oscillating, scanning behavior of a brain, - The Minds of Men 00:18
Later noting a similarity between the oscillating, scanning...
Harmonic analysis accounted for the transmission of information in a whole new way, - The Minds of Men 00:11
Harmonic analysis accounted for the transmission of...
Stafford Beer: We must get rid of any notion, straight away, - The Minds of Men 00:14
Stafford Beer: We must get rid of any notion, straight away,
Narrator: If one could modify the way the brain processed signals, one could program the brain - The Minds of Men 00:18
Narrator: If one could modify the way the brain processed...
By 1955, Norbert Wiener – who'd long ago sworn off work on "weapons of war" - The Minds of Men 00:30
By 1955, Norbert Wiener – who'd long ago sworn off work...
Mary Brazier, too, would work on this big project, - The Minds of Men 00:10
Mary Brazier, too, would work on this big project,
They called it "The Autocorrelator". - The Minds of Men 00:05
They called it "The Autocorrelator".
Barlow: The apparatus made an enormous clatter. - The Minds of Men 00:05
Barlow: The apparatus made an enormous clatter.
The two dozen relays in the rapid repeater; - The Minds of Men 00:20
The two dozen relays in the rapid repeater;
Norbert Wiener loved the racket. He was captivated. - The Minds of Men 00:05
Norbert Wiener loved the racket. He was captivated.
He was absolutely fixed on the print out as it was coming out. - The Minds of Men 00:05
He was absolutely fixed on the print out as it was coming...
Wiener's goal for the project was nothing less than to find the Rosetta Stone - The Minds of Men 00:06
Wiener's goal for the project was nothing less than to...
Narrator: A machine that analyzed brain waves in analog mode. - The Minds of Men 00:05
Narrator: A machine that analyzed brain waves in analog...
As authors Conway and Siegelman wrote: "The correlator was Wiener's baby. - The Minds of Men 00:05
As authors Conway and Siegelman wrote: "The correlator...
The first analog computer to apply his statistical methods - The Minds of Men 00:08
The first analog computer to apply his statistical methods
Wiener considered the machine to be the most significant work - The Minds of Men 00:12
Wiener considered the machine to be the most significant...