Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0

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Julian Bigelow was a mathematician and engineer who co-authored "Behavior, Purpose and Teleology" (1943) with Norbert Wiener and Arturo Rosenblueth, a foundational paper that introduced feedback mechanisms and circular causal systems into discussions of purposeful behavior. The course uses this work to establish the theoretical origins of cybernetics and its application to understanding goal-directed systems—a concept that became central to the Macy conferences and influenced how mid-century thinkers like Bateson began conceptualizing the relationship between machines, organisms, and intentionality. His early intervention helped shift philosophy and science toward embracing mechanical systems as potentially purposive rather than merely deterministic.

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Notes on À bruit secret_ Notes on Duchamp

Cybernetics, CIA, and Organized Crime

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Bateson immediately grasped Duchamp’s line of thinking – it reflected ideas that he had been engaging with at the Macy cybernetics conferences and their precursor, the 1942 Cerebral Inhibition Meeting, where (among other topics but of parti…Diagram from Behavior, Purpose and Teleology by Arturo Rosenblueth, Norbert Wiener and Julian Bigelow in Philosophy of Science, 10 (1943) Both the paper and the Cerebral Inhibition Meeting (Per Bateson “Cerebral inhibition was a respectabl…1963, the year of Duchamp’s Las Vegas trip facilitated by Monte Factor, was also the year that John F. Kennedy was assassinated. While the 1964 Warren Report found Lee Harvey Oswald solely responsible, a decade later The United States House…

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