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The Minds of Men

This machine has stored program, and that is the thing which makes the computer revolution...

This machine has stored program, and that is the thing which makes the computer revolution possible

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This machine has stored program,
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and that is the thing which makes the computer revolution possible.
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10 seconds
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Timestamp in Movie
01:01:12
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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...
Narrator: John Von Neumann took the stage to update everyone - The Minds of Men 00:08
Narrator: John Von Neumann took the stage to update everyone
Man: The immense strides in computer technology spurred by Von Neumann's work. - The Minds of Men 00:05
Man: The immense strides in computer technology spurred by...
Narrator: It was now ready for the next stage of exploitation. - The Minds of Men 00:05
Narrator: It was now ready for the next stage of...
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...