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The Minds of Men

That would eventually culminate in the DARPA-created ARPAnet, the forerunner to the...

Narrator: That would eventually culminate in the DARPA-created ARPAnet, the forerunner to the modern Internet

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Narrator: That would eventually culminate in the DARPA-created ARPAnet,
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the forerunner to the modern Internet.
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8 seconds
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01:28:35
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Jul 01, 2025
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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...
Man: Research now going on will someday permit a network user to log in. - The Minds of Men 00:05
Man: Research now going on will someday permit a network...
(echoes) - The Minds of Men 00:22
(echoes)
And we must get rid of any notion straight away that control - The Minds of Men 00:09
And we must get rid of any notion straight away that control
Let's see how the mechanism works. You see it lifting here. - The Minds of Men 00:05
Let's see how the mechanism works. You see it lifting...
Transmitting the message along here. Lifting that cam up here, - The Minds of Men 00:09
Transmitting the message along here. Lifting that cam up...
It's called feedback, and feedback is ubiquitous in control systems. - The Minds of Men 00:08
It's called feedback, and feedback is ubiquitous in...
Narrator: At this point, we realize that reality itself is not a fixed thing. - The Minds of Men 00:07
Narrator: At this point, we realize that reality itself is...
As our nervous systems interpret the symbols and signals - The Minds of Men 00:16
As our nervous systems interpret the symbols and signals
Bateson: These systems which are minds are circuits of cause and effect. - The Minds of Men 00:05
Bateson: These systems which are minds are circuits of cause...
For me the system is man and environment. - The Minds of Men 00:05
For me the system is man and environment.
Narrator: Man sought to control his own kind - The Minds of Men 00:15
Narrator: Man sought to control his own kind
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...