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The Minds of Men

In watching an electronic data processing system in operation, you are struck by how few...

And the essential question: "Is man programmable like a machine?" Man: In watching an electronic data processing system in operation, you are struck by how few people are involved. This impression is misleading

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And the essential question:
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"Is man programmable like a machine?"
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Man: In watching an electronic data processing system in operation,
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you are struck by how few people are involved. This impression is misleading.
Duration
19 seconds
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Timestamp in Movie
00:40:46
Uploaded
Jul 01, 2025
Genres
documentary
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Movie Summary

"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...
There are more people behind the scenes than first meets the eye. - The Minds of Men 00:05
There are more people behind the scenes than first meets the...
Narrator: During the early 1950s, Dr. Hebb had taken part in the CIA's Top Secret Project Bluebird - The Minds of Men 00:15
Narrator: During the early 1950s, Dr. Hebb had taken part in...
As experimentation continued, Bluebird quickly evolved into Project Artichoke, - The Minds of Men 00:13
As experimentation continued, Bluebird quickly evolved into...
But covert, organized scientific research had already begun years earlier - The Minds of Men 00:12
But covert, organized scientific research had already begun...
Early on, a number of social scientists, psychiatrists and psychologists - The Minds of Men 00:19
Early on, a number of social scientists, psychiatrists and...
The Moral Committee conducted in-depth research – much of it classified - The Minds of Men 00:17
The Moral Committee conducted in-depth research – much of it...
The committee also proposed secret research into methods of enhanced interrogation - The Minds of Men 00:11
The committee also proposed secret research into methods of...
Channeled through the Office of the Coordinator of Information is - The Minds of Men 00:08
Channeled through the Office of the Coordinator of...
The Office of the Coordinator of Information would soon merge - The Minds of Men 00:13
The Office of the Coordinator of Information would soon...
These early Truth Drug experiments would be carried out in secret, - The Minds of Men 00:10
These early Truth Drug experiments would be carried out in...
Was attempting to find a cure for shell shock. - The Minds of Men 00:05
Was attempting to find a cure for shell shock.
Helms: Some of the newer trends in the U.S.S.R. are as follows: - The Minds of Men 00:24
Helms: Some of the newer trends in the U.S.S.R. are as...
Man: But the computer continuously and instantly solves the problem - The Minds of Men 00:09
Man: But the computer continuously and instantly solves the...
Narrator: In May 1942, just a few weeks before the O.S.S. was officially created, - The Minds of Men 00:16
Narrator: In May 1942, just a few weeks before the O.S.S....
It centered around two topics: hypnosis and the conditioned reflex. - The Minds of Men 00:06
It centered around two topics: hypnosis and the conditioned...
The Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, a private philanthropy - The Minds of Men 00:15
The Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, a private philanthropy
Macy Foundation President and neurologist Frank Fremont-Smith, - The Minds of Men 00:24
Macy Foundation President and neurologist Frank...
Off the record, these people would discuss what could be done about "the problem". - The Minds of Men 00:07
Off the record, these people would discuss what could be...
Chairman Warren S. McCulloch, a neurophysiologist at the University of Illinois - The Minds of Men 00:17
Chairman Warren S. McCulloch, a neurophysiologist at the...
His cybernetic quest to understand the brain-mind problem - The Minds of Men 00:28
His cybernetic quest to understand the brain-mind problem