#126 - WE ARE THE ROBOTS: A Subliminal History of Cybernetics, Part 1 (with Jay @TheHague_ICC) (Patreon)

Dimitri and Khalid talk to returning guest Jay the Neuroscientist (@The_Hague_ICC) about the deeply influential but ostensibly defunct field of cybernetics, including: the science of steersmanship/adaptive systems, the broader definition of “machines”, the non-modern ontology of early cybernetics, Norbert Wiener, the UK Ratio Club, eugenicist suslord Julian Huxley, the American Macy Conferences, Grey Walter, Ross Ashby, ontologies of performance vs. knowledge, negative feedback, and LSD “blitz therapy”. Part 1 of 4.