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The Minds of Men

And our interaction with the technology at hand has created its own feedback, derived from...

And our interaction with the technology at hand has created its own feedback, derived from our interpreted reality

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And our interaction with the technology at hand
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has created its own feedback, derived from our interpreted reality.
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01:31:13
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Jul 01, 2025
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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...
Wiener: The world about us is accessible only through a nervous system - The Minds of Men 00:15
Wiener: The world about us is accessible only through a...
Narrator: As this technology captures, measures and analyzes the world around us, - The Minds of Men 00:19
Narrator: As this technology captures, measures and analyzes...
Bateson: And, specifically, it is a recursive epistemology - The Minds of Men 00:13
Bateson: And, specifically, it is a recursive epistemology
Von Foerster: Cybernetics is programmed in this same base human language - The Minds of Men 00:09
Von Foerster: Cybernetics is programmed in this same base...
Our very essence is conflicted with the environment, and yet - The Minds of Men 00:08
Our very essence is conflicted with the environment, and yet
Bateson: The old worm Ouroboros is an odd worm who conceals - The Minds of Men 00:11
Bateson: The old worm Ouroboros is an odd worm who conceals
The Ouroboros! The Ouroboros is the perfect partner for cybernetics! - The Minds of Men 00:07
The Ouroboros! The Ouroboros is the perfect partner for...
Narrator: Ultimately, the underlying natural matrix is supplanted by an artificial one - The Minds of Men 00:16
Narrator: Ultimately, the underlying natural matrix is...
♪(eerie music) - The Minds of Men 00:11
♪(eerie music)
The science of cybernetics would reveal to the C.I.A. - The Minds of Men 00:05
The science of cybernetics would reveal to the C.I.A.
– or any serious agency making inquiries – - The Minds of Men 00:20
– or any serious agency making inquiries –
Behavior, then, modified by continuous feedback, - The Minds of Men 00:09
Behavior, then, modified by continuous feedback,
The ultimate question was who, or what, would control the signal? - The Minds of Men 00:08
The ultimate question was who, or what, would control the...
Reports from the first five of the ten Macy's Cybernetics conferences - The Minds of Men 00:07
Reports from the first five of the ten Macy's...
These ten meetings systematically worked out questions of control - The Minds of Men 00:19
These ten meetings systematically worked out questions of...
The last Cybernetics meeting was held April 22, 1953 - The Minds of Men 00:12
The last Cybernetics meeting was held April 22, 1953
Norbert Wiener lamented: - The Minds of Men 00:26
Norbert Wiener lamented:
Narrator: This was especially so - The Minds of Men 00:12
Narrator: This was especially so
Wiener: We do not have a choice in suppressing these new technological developments. - The Minds of Men 00:05
Wiener: We do not have a choice in suppressing these new...
We can only hand it over to the world that exists about us. - The Minds of Men 00:05
We can only hand it over to the world that exists about us.