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The Minds of Men

Man sought to control his own kind by way of understanding what governed his actions...

Narrator: Man sought to control his own kind by way of understanding what governed his actions starting with the neuron, base unit of mind-body communication

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Narrator: Man sought to control his own kind
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by way of understanding what governed his actions
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starting with the neuron, base unit of mind-body communication.
Duration
15 seconds
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20
Timestamp in Movie
01:30:08
Uploaded
Jul 06, 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...
McKay: What is cybernetics? A railway train needs no steering gear. - The Minds of Men 00:07
McKay: What is cybernetics? A railway train needs no...
The forces required to correct for the buffetings of wind and way are - The Minds of Men 00:09
The forces required to correct for the buffetings of wind...
A ship, lacking such implicit means of guidance, - The Minds of Men 00:09
A ship, lacking such implicit means of guidance,
The Latin for helmsman is gubenator; the Greek, kybernetes. - The Minds of Men 00:06
The Latin for helmsman is gubenator; the Greek, kybernetes.
From the first comes our word cybernetics, last cybernétique, - The Minds of Men 00:10
From the first comes our word cybernetics, last...
♪(piano, scissors) - The Minds of Men 00:16
♪(piano, scissors)
And our interaction with the technology at hand - The Minds of Men 00:10
And our interaction with the technology at hand
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...