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The Minds of Men

It was now ready for the next stage of exploitation

Narrator: It was now ready for the next stage of exploitation

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Narrator: It was now ready for the next stage of exploitation.
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01:01:32
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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...
Man: The system calls for the key to be either up or down. - The Minds of Men 00:05
Man: The system calls for the key to be either up or down.
Narrator: Norbert Wiener's cybernetic concept held the key - The Minds of Men 00:08
Narrator: Norbert Wiener's cybernetic concept held the...
Man: The method and the signal are such that they must be fed - The Minds of Men 00:09
Man: The method and the signal are such that they must be...
Narrator: It fused together the working principles of the biological organism - The Minds of Men 00:09
Narrator: It fused together the working principles of the...
Rosenblueth: Its maintenance is automatic and seeks to balance any disturbances. - The Minds of Men 00:05
Rosenblueth: Its maintenance is automatic and seeks to...
Narrator: Wiener, Rosenblueth and Bigelow presented the ideas of the their paper, - The Minds of Men 00:08
Narrator: Wiener, Rosenblueth and Bigelow presented the...
It was written in 1943 but couldn't be published until 1947 due to secrecy. - The Minds of Men 00:07
It was written in 1943 but couldn't be published until...
They had a universal mechanism to create goal-seeking behavior - The Minds of Men 00:16
They had a universal mechanism to create goal-seeking...
Wiener stated: "The existing natural reflexes are essentially part - The Minds of Men 00:11
Wiener stated: "The existing natural reflexes are...
One need merely supply a circuit with receptors and effectors. - The Minds of Men 00:07
One need merely supply a circuit with receptors and...
Then they become goal-seeking devices. - The Minds of Men 00:05
Then they become goal-seeking devices.
♪(machines beeping, music) - The Minds of Men 00:16
♪(machines beeping, music)
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