MACY CONFERENCES ATTENDEES
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| Harold
A. Abramson (Psychiatrist) |
Ross Ashby (Psychiatrist) |
Gregory
Bateson (Anthropologist) |
Alex
Bavelas (Social Psychologist) |
Julian
Bigelow (Computer Engineer) |
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Gerhardt
von Bonin
(Neuroanatomist) |
Henry
Brosin
(Psychiatrist) |
Heinz
von Foerster
(Electrical Engineer) |
Lawrence
K. Frank
(Social Scientist) |
Frank
Fremont-Smith
(Medical Director of the Macy Foundation) |
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Ralph
W. Gerard
(Neurophysiologist) |
Molly
Harrower
(Psychologist) |
George
Evelyn Hutchinson
(Ecologist) |
Heinrich
Klüver
(Psychologist) |
Lawrence
S. Kubie
(Psychiatrist) |
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Paul
F. Lazarsfeld
(Sociologist) |
Kurt
Lewin
(Psychologist) |
Rafael
Lorente De No
(Neurophysiologist) |
Donald
G. Marquis
(Psychologist) |
Warren
S. McCulloch
(Neuropsychiatrist) |
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| Margaret
Mead (Anthropologist) |
John
von Neumann (Mathematician) |
Filmer
S. C. Northrop (Philosopher) |
Walter
Pitts (Mathematician and Logician) |
Arturo
Rosenblueth (Physiologist) |
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| Leonard
J. Savage (Mathematician and Statistician) |
Theodore
Schneirla (Comparative Psychologist) |
Claude
E. Shannon (Mathematician and Electronic Engineer) |
Hans
Lukas Teuber (Psychologist) |
Norbert
Wiener (Mathematician) |
Evolving out of the militaristic economy of capitalist patriarchy in the aftermath of WWII, the Macy Conferences (1942 and 1946-1953) sought to generate new connections between engineering, biology, mathematics, psychology, psychiatry, and all the social sciences.
Sponsored by the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation in New York, the Macy conferences attendees developed and disseminated the idea of cybernetics - the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine, in society and in individual human beings - as a model of understanding and controlling the world.
Macy Conferences attendees consisted of mathematicians, scientists, engineers and leading figures of post-war social science, some of whom had contributed to the construction and use of nuclear weapons, some of whom went on to carry out CIA funded military research into the psychological effects of LSD and its potential as a tool for interrogation and psychological manipulation in such projects as the CIA's MKULTRA program and others who took ethical positions and subsequently rejected military funding of their work.
MACY CONFERENCES ATTENDEES/Gematria
