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The Minds of Men

Conference chairman Warren McCulloch had taken things a step further, showing how the...

��(machines beeping, music) Narrator: Conference chairman Warren McCulloch had taken things a step further, showing how the operation of the human brain can be represented by on-off electric switching devices

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Narrator: Conference chairman Warren McCulloch had taken things a step further,
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showing how the operation of the human brain can be represented
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by on-off electric switching devices.
Duration
16 seconds
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26
Timestamp in Movie
01:02:57
Uploaded
Jul 01, 2025
Genres
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...
Narrator: His 1943 paper with Walter Pitts on the Logical Calculus of Nervous Activity - The Minds of Men 00:15
Narrator: His 1943 paper with Walter Pitts on the Logical...
Lily Kay: The mind, in contradistinction to brain and behavior, - The Minds of Men 00:10
Lily Kay: The mind, in contradistinction to brain and...
The neural nets project of McCulloch and Pitts spearheaded this cognitivist turn in the 1940s. - The Minds of Men 00:07
The neural nets project of McCulloch and Pitts spearheaded...
Science of mind thus became a science of signals, based on binary logic. - The Minds of Men 00:07
Science of mind thus became a science of signals, based on...
Neural nets bridged the gulf between body and mind, matter and form. - The Minds of Men 00:07
Neural nets bridged the gulf between body and mind, matter...
Narrator: The comparisons between the central nervous system as an electronic machine, - The Minds of Men 00:18
Narrator: The comparisons between the central nervous system...
Very simply, in the first place, I wanted to find out what was going in the brain. - The Minds of Men 00:05
Very simply, in the first place, I wanted to find out what...
Man: For McCulloch, it was always an esoteric quest - The Minds of Men 00:09
Man: For McCulloch, it was always an esoteric quest
Interviewer: Head of the department of Cybernetics at MIT, psychologist, psychiatrist, - The Minds of Men 00:12
Interviewer: Head of the department of Cybernetics at MIT,...
Narrator: The first answers to his questions came during the tail-end of WWI. - The Minds of Men 00:05
Narrator: The first answers to his questions came during the...
Yale's wartime ROTC training instructor in chemical warfare - The Minds of Men 00:09
Yale's wartime ROTC training instructor in chemical...
McCulloch: Boltwood. Head of the Chemistry Department and an expert in chemical warfare. - The Minds of Men 00:07
McCulloch: Boltwood. Head of the Chemistry Department and an...
Narrator: Boltwood, who'd come from a wealthy family of Skull and Bones initiates, - The Minds of Men 00:15
Narrator: Boltwood, who'd come from a wealthy family of...
A chosen initiate, Professor Boltwood invited young McCulloch to his home - The Minds of Men 00:11
A chosen initiate, Professor Boltwood invited young...
McCulloch: It was just before the Great War ended that - The Minds of Men 00:09
McCulloch: It was just before the Great War ended that
He complained to me of his increasing forgetfulness, and asked me - The Minds of Men 00:13
He complained to me of his increasing forgetfulness, and...
He grabbed me by the hands and intently revealed to me - The Minds of Men 00:10
He grabbed me by the hands and intently revealed to me
Narrator: Knowledge was passed down through the centuries and closely guarded by the initiates - The Minds of Men 00:12
Narrator: Knowledge was passed down through the centuries...
Narrator: All shared the mysterious keys of governing early civilizations. - The Minds of Men 00:06
Narrator: All shared the mysterious keys of governing early...
McCulloch: Cybernetic at heart, these inherited secrets - The Minds of Men 00:09
McCulloch: Cybernetic at heart, these inherited secrets