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The Minds of Men

A matrix is supposed to give birth, not receive

Bateson: A matrix is supposed to give birth, not receive

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Bateson: A matrix is supposed to give birth, not receive.
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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...
And yet what I want to talk about is very definitely the birth of a matrix. - The Minds of Men 00:08
And yet what I want to talk about is very definitely the...
The matrix has been a growing thing - The Minds of Men 00:09
The matrix has been a growing thing
And I believe, more and more fertile as time has gone on. - The Minds of Men 00:07
And I believe, more and more fertile as time has gone on.
Pattern comes from Pater, the father. - The Minds of Men 00:04
Pattern comes from Pater, the father.
A stamp the Papa is making again and again children of himself. - The Minds of Men 00:06
A stamp the Papa is making again and again children of...
What is the complimentary to pattern? It's a matrix. - The Minds of Men 00:05
What is the complimentary to pattern? It's a matrix.
Look at the matrix which embeds - The Minds of Men 00:08
Look at the matrix which embeds
Narrator: As Alex Bavelas of MIT noted in his Group Dynamics studies: - The Minds of Men 00:17
Narrator: As Alex Bavelas of MIT noted in his Group Dynamics...
We plot the net as a matrix. - The Minds of Men 00:04
We plot the net as a matrix.
We put 1s where there is a link, and 0s where there is no direct link. - The Minds of Men 00:07
We put 1s where there is a link, and 0s where there is no...
Narrator: At stake was the unveiling of an entirely new paradigm - The Minds of Men 00:13
Narrator: At stake was the unveiling of an entirely new...
The system they came up with required that individuals and society - The Minds of Men 00:09
The system they came up with required that individuals and...
Man: The eye of the beholder sees a strange new technology. - The Minds of Men 00:07
Man: The eye of the beholder sees a strange new technology.
(digital log-on sounds echo eerily) - The Minds of Men 00:09
(digital log-on sounds echo eerily)
Licklider: Things are going to be considerably better for a lot of people - The Minds of Men 00:09
Licklider: Things are going to be considerably better for a...
Narrator: As this network evolved, the Internet developed into an artificial nervous system. - The Minds of Men 00:07
Narrator: As this network evolved, the Internet developed...
Like other Macy's attendees, J.C.R. Licklider had been activated by wartime research. - The Minds of Men 00:09
Like other Macy's attendees, J.C.R. Licklider had been...
His experiments in modeling the human brain with psycho-acoustic factors at Harvard - The Minds of Men 00:15
His experiments in modeling the human brain with...
McCulloch: Behavior, tied to appetite, was couched in the same terms - The Minds of Men 00:09
McCulloch: Behavior, tied to appetite, was couched in the...
Narrator: Like so many computers and machines and other controllable factors, - The Minds of Men 00:13
Narrator: Like so many computers and machines and other...