The Cybernetic Brain

by Andrew Pickering

  training by punishment

  as ultrastable machines

  war among

  Wiener's description of

  world of

  Hovenden, Valerie and Feathers

  How Buildings Learn (Brand)n

  Howarth-Williams, Martinn

  "human potential" movementn

  Human Use of Human Beings, The (Wiener)

  Humphrey, Georgenn

  Hurricane Katrina

  Hutchinson, Evelynn

  Huxley, Aldousn

  The Doors of Perception, –nnn

  Heaven and Hell,–

  Walter's influence on

  Huxley, Francisn

  hylozoism

  altered states of matter and

  art and

  Beer and

  Craik onn

  definedn

  new music andn

  robotics and

  spirituality and

  "tortoises" and

  hypnotism. See trance

  hypoglycaemic therapy

  Ichazo, Oscarn

  icosahedron figure, ,nnn–

  In C(Riley)

  industrializationn. See also

  factory automation systems

  information technology n

  information theory

  infosettic consciousnessn

  initiation ceremonies

  Institute for Advanced Study

  Institute for Contemporary Arts, Londonnn

  Institute of Phenomenological Studies

  insulin shock. See also shock

  therapies

  intelligent design

  "Interactions of Actors" (Pask)

  International Publishing Corporation

  international relations, cybernetics and,

  –. See also politics,

  cybernetics and

  Interpersonal Perception(Laing, Phillipson, Lee)

  Introduction to Cybernetics, An (Ashby)nn

  Intuition,

  Iraq

  iRobotn

  It's Gonna Rain (Reich)

  Jackson, Donn

  James, Williamn

  Jonckheere, A. R.n

  Journal of General Psychology,

  Journal of Mental Science,nn

  Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, n

  Kac, Eduardo, ,

  Kamiya, Joe

  karma

  Kauffman, Stuart

  "articulation of parts" explanation

  At Home in the Universe,

  life and careern

  mathematical researches ofn

  work on complexitynn–

  Kesey, Kenn

  King, Cecil

  King Crimsonn

  Kingsley Hall, ,nn–n

  Klüver, Heinrichn

  "knowledge as detour" conceptn.

  See also performative

  epistemology

  Koolhaas, Remn

  Kotowicz, Z.nn

  Kresge College

  Kripal, J.n

  Kubrick, Stanleynn

  Kuhn, T. S.n

  Lacey, Brucen

  Laing, Adriann

  Laing, R. D., ,

  The Facts of Life,

  Interpersonal Perception,

  life and career

  LSD experiments

  "Metanoia,"

  outsider status of

  Pask andn

  The Politics of Experience,–n

  psychiatric work ofnnn–

  Self and Others,

  social basis of work

  spirituality and

  Wisdom, Madness and Folly,

  Lancet,

  Landau, Roy

  Latham, John

  Latil, Pierre de

  Latour, Brunonnnn

  Laughlin, R. B.

  Laws of Form(Brown)nn

  Leacock, Stephenn

  Leadbeater, C. W.n

  Leary, Timothynn

  Lee, A. Robin

  Lem, Stanislawn

  Leonard, Allennann

  Lettvin, Jeromen

  levitationn

  Lewis, Briann

  Lilly, Johnnnn

  Linz Café,

  Lipset, D.n

  Littlewood, Joann

  Living Brain, The(Walter)nn

  Living Brain, The(cont.)

  account of "tortoise" origins in

  altered states discussed in

  CORA discussed in

  influence of

  Living City installation, ,n

  lobotomiesnnn

  cybernetic equivalent, ,

  Lobsinger, Mary Lounn

  Lodge, Olivern

  Logic Theorist program

  Lorenz, Konradn

  LSDnnnnnn–

  Lucier, Alvin, ,nn

  Machina docilis,–nn

  Machina labyrinthea,

  Machina sopora,

  Machina speculatrix,

  MacKay, Donald

  Macy conferencesnnn

  management cybernetics

  Management Science(Beer)

  mandalasn

  Mangle of Practice, The(Pickering) nn–n

  mantras

  Marcus, G.n

  Marcuse, Herbert

  Marcuson, Alann

  Marxism

  massage

  Masserman, Jules

  Masterman, Margaretn

  mathematical researches

  Mathews, Stanleynnn–

  Matthews, B. H. C.n

  Maturana, Humbertonnnn

  Maxwell, James Clerkn

  Mayfield, Barbaran

  McCarthy, John

  McColl, Ewan

  McCulloch, Warren, ,n

  Ashby and

  Bateson and n

  career of nn –n

  cybernetics research described as "experi

  mental epistemology,"

  golem quote

  "How We Know Universals,"

  Laing's quote of n

  as Macy Conferences chair

  MIT research

  phrase "the go of it,"

  redundancy notionn

  visit to Britain

  McKenzie, Bobn

  McKinnon-Wood, Robinnn

  McKissock, Wylien

  McLuhan, Eric

  McLuhan, Marshall

  Mead, Margaretn

  Medalla, Davidnn

  Medina, Eden nn–n

  meditationn

  meeting protocol, team syntegrity approach

  memory, dynamics of n

  Mental Research Instituten

  mescalinennn

  metanoian

  Meyerhold, Vsevolod

  Michael X

  Michelangelo

  Micro Man(Pask)

  Mikardo, Iann

  Miles, Suen

  military applications

  of AI

  of cyberneticsnnnnn

  of LSD n

  Mind Benders, The(film) n

  MIT Media Lab n

  MIT Research Laboratory of Electronicsn

  modernity, concept of. See also ontology of

  knowability

  AI research and

  approach to "Black Box," –

  cybernetics' rejection of

  defined n

  Heidegger on

  Latour on

  madness and

  as noncompulsory

  problems with

  schizophrenia and

  self's role in

  in Western educational systems

  mollusc shell patterns

  Moog, Robert

  Moore, Harryn

  Moravec, Hans

  Mosher, Lorenn

  multistable systems

  Murphy, Michaelnnn

  music

  ambientnn–

  biofeedback andnn–

  composition as selection process

  cybernetics and

  feedback inn

  generativenn–

  Pask and

  performer as learnern

  Music
for Airports (Eno) n

  Music for Solo Performer (Lucier),

  Musica Elettronica Viva Group

  Musicolour machine, –,

  functioning ofnn–

  history of

  indescribability of

  influence ofn

  logic diagram,

  ontology of

  Pask's description of

  Naked Lunch (Burroughs) n

  Namur conferencesnnn

  NASA Mission Control

  National Institute of Cybernetics

  Nature, n

  Nature of Explanation, The (Craik)

  nature's computers

  Negroponte, Nicholasnn

  Neumann, John vonn

  neural networks, research onnnn

  New Age movementnn –n

  New Directions in British Architecture (Landau)

  New Kind of Science, A (Wolfram)

  Newell, Alan

  Newton, Isaacnn

  nirvanan.

  See also strange performances and altered states

  NKS

  Nó, Rafael Lorente de

  No Child Left Behind Actn

  Noble, D. F.n

  nonmodernist ontology. See alsoontology of

  unknowability

  approach to "Black Box," –

  approach to schizophrenia

  automaton machines and

  cybernetics' acceptance of

  described

  experiments inn

  institutions for

  madness and

  meditation and

  New Age movement andnn–

  psychoactive drugs and

  strange performances andnn

  urban planning and

  Notes on the Synthesis of Form (Alexander)

  Notting Hill Free Schooln

  Nuttall, Jeffnn

  Ogilvy, Angus

  Olympiajournal

  One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (Kesey)n

  Ono, Yoko

  ontological multiplicity

  ontological theater

  AI and

  Archway as

  in arts

  biofeedback music asn

  biological computers as

  cause-controlled regulator as

  cellular automata as

  chemical computers

  Colloquy of Mobiles as

  concept of

  cybernetic theater and

  cybernetics as

  DAMS as

  dualist undermining as

  EEG and

  flicker and

  homeostats as

  homeostats at war as

  Kingsley Hall as

  Musicolour as

  sixties as

  teaching machines and

  terrorism as

  "tortoises" as

  value of

  yogic feats as

  ontology (term)

  author's use of

  definition and importance of

  ontology of becoming

  ontology of knowability

  AI research and

  appeal of

  "Black Box" and

  brain and

  control and

  design and

  dominance of

  modernism and

  as psychiatric approach

  as scientific approach

  ontology of unknowabilityn

  as alternative worldview

  "Black Box" and

  "control" and

  in cybernetic factory plan

  design and

  emergent properties in

  exceedingly complex systems and

  forward-looking processing and

  God and

  homeostats and

  importance of

  Kauffman onn

  nature and

  politics and

  society and

  toys' role in illuminating

  world events and

  Open University (OU)

  Operational Research Group

  operations research (OR) n

  Oppenheimer, Robert

  Osmond, Humphreynnnn

  Ouspensky, Peter D.

  Pangaro, Pauln

  Parr, Geoffreyn

  Parsons, Talcottn

  participant observer

  Pask, Edgar "Gar," –

  Pask, Elizabethn

  Pask, Gordon,

  Adventures with Professor Flaxman-Low, n

  An Approach to Cybernetics,n

  "The Architectural Relevance of Cybernetics,"

  architectural tributes to

  arts projects

  Ashby and

  Bateson and

  Beer and

  biological computing work

  Calculator Saturnalia,

  CASTE machine and

  cellular automata research

  Colloquy of Mobiles, ,–

  control viewed by

  "conversation" metaphor for cybernetics

  cybernetic aesthetics of

  cybernetic theater

  cybernetics as hobby for

  cybernetics described as architecture by

  electrochemical "threads" experiments

  epistemological reflections

  factory management/sailing ship analogy

  first name not used by

  Frazer and

  Fun Palace, –, n

  influences on

  "Interactions of Actors" theory

  Laing andn

  life and career

  Micro Man, –

  "Minds and Media in Education and Entertainment," –

  Musicolour machine

  "The Natural History of Networks,"

  "Organic Control and the Cybernetic Method," –

  "A Proposed Evolutionary Model,"

  SAKI training machinesn

  as second-generation cybernetician

  social basis of cybernetics work

  spirituality and

  symmetric approach to psychiatric therapy

  System Research company

  Pask, Percy

  Pasteur, Louisn

  Pavlovian conditioningnnn

  Pearce, J. C.n

  Pebbles to Computers: The Thread(Beer)

  Penny, Simonnn–

  Perceval's Narrative,

  performative epistemology. See also ontology of becoming

  Ashby's CORA and

  Beer's animal experiments

  Beer's biological experiments

  Brooks's research

  cybernetics' embrace of

  meditation and

  Musicolour and

  Pask's views on

  in psychiatric treatment

  sailing as analog for

  "self" and

  of "tortoises," –

  perturbation theoryn

  phase-space diagrams

  Philadelphia Associationnn

  Phillipson, H.

  philosophy

  Continental

  hylozoistnn

  pragmatist

  "photic driving." See flicker

  phototropismn

  Phrontisn

  phrontisterion,

  Phumox projectn

  Piano, Renzon

  Picasso, Pablo

  Pinch, T.n

  Pincher, Chapman

  Pines, David

  Pink Floyd

  Pinochet, Augusto

  Pitts, Waltern

  Planetary Collegiumn

  Platform for Change (Beer)

  Plug-In City

  politics, cybernetics and

  Beer's projectsn

  "control" and

  interacting systems

  radical sixtiesn

  subpolitics

  world organizationsn

  Politics of Ecstasy, The (Leary)n

  Politics of Experience, The (Laing)n

  Pompidou Centren

  pond ecosystems

  Poole, Elizabeth

  posthumanist science and t
echnology studies

  Potteries Thinkbeltn

  power hierarchy

  asymmetry vs. symmetry in

  civil engineering and

  interactive artworks and

  in music composition

  in organizations and governmentsnn

  psychiatric treatment and

  social feedback and

  Pragmatism and the Meaning of Truth ( James)

  pragmatist philosophy

  Pratchett, Terry

  "Presentation" (Walter)

  Price, Cedricn

  Price, Richardnn

  Prigogine, Ilyannn

  Principia Mathematica (Russell and Whitehead)

  Project Cybersyn, ,–nn

  Psychiatry and Anti-psychiatry (Cooper)n

  psychoactive drugs

  Bateson's views onn

  flicker and

  Huxley's views onn

  in mental illness treatmentnnn–

  research onn

  sixties and

  sixties counterculture and

  technology of self andn

  See also LSD; mescaline

  psychology and psychiatry

  adaptiveness concept in

  altered states and

  antipsychiatrynn

  Archway

  asymmetric approaches

  aversion therapyn

  Blitz-therapy method

  concept of self in

  cross-conditioning experimentsnn

  cybernetics andnnn–

  drug treatment

  educational

  experimental drug research

  Glasgow "rumpus room" experiment

  "great and desperate cures," n

  Kingsley Hall

  madness seen as inner voyage

  madness seen as maladaptation

  madness simulations

  madness's spiritual dimension

  materialist school

  sixties countercultural approachesn

  symmetric approaches

  Villa experiment

  See also schizophrenia

  Putthof, Haroldn

  Pynchon, Thomasn

  quantum field theoryn

  quarksn

  "Question Concerning Technology, The"

  (Heidegger)

  Ratcliffe, Katherine

  Ratio Clubnn–n

  rationalization

  rebirthingn

  Recent Progress in Psychiatry,

  recursivity, ,, , –n

  Redler, Leonn

  regulators, machines as

  Reich, Steve

  Reichardt, Jasiannn

  "relevance conditions," –

  requisite variety, law of

  Research Laboratory of Electronicsn

  revealing conceptn

  reverberation of discussions concept

  Riley, Terry

  ring modulator

  "risk society" concept

  Robbins, Jimn

  Robinson, Peter

  robotics

  AI research and

  Allen robot

  cockroach-controlled

  Colloquy of Mobiles and

  cybernetics and

  funding forn

  industrial

  as ontological theater

  Pask's work

  performative models

  in sculpture

  situatedn

  "tortoises" andn

  Rockefeller Foundation

  Rogers, Richardn

  Rolling Stones

  Rorvik, David

  Rosenblueth, Arturon

  Roszak, Theodoren

  Rowe, Brian Lee Yungn

  Roxy Music

  Ruesch, Jurgen