{"id":556,"date":"2019-08-15T13:54:09","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T12:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pworldrworld.com\/fred\/?p=556"},"modified":"2019-08-15T13:54:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T12:54:09","slug":"stafford-beer-i-said-you-are-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pworldrworld.com\/fred\/?p=556","title":{"rendered":"Stafford Beer: I said you are Gods!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the diligent offices of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanillabeer.net\/\">Vanilla Beer<\/a>, here is the text of a talk given by renowned cybernetician <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stafford_Beer\">Stafford Beer<\/a> in 1981 to the Teilhard Centre for the Future of Man. It is a mature distillation of themes of cybernetics, metaphysics, and spirituality, which were matters of lively debate among many of the early cyberniticians and friends (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.interculturalstudies.org\/Bateson\/biography.html\">Gregory Bateson<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/alanwatts.com\/\">Alan Watts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/G._Spencer-Brown\">George Spencer-Brown<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Humberto_Maturana\">Humberto Maturana<\/a>, etc). <\/p>\n<p>PDF: <a href=\"http:\/\/pworldrworld.com\/fred\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/ISaidYouAreGods.pdf\">I Said You Are Gods<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the diligent offices of Vanilla Beer, here is the text of a talk given by renowned cybernetician Stafford Beer in 1981 to the Teilhard Centre for the Future of Man. It is a mature distillation of themes of cybernetics, metaphysics, and spirituality, which were matters of lively debate among many of the early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pworldrworld.com\/fred\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pworldrworld.com\/fred\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pworldrworld.com\/fred\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pworldrworld.com\/fred\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pworldrworld.com\/fred\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pworldrworld.com\/fred\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":559,"href":"https:\/\/pworldrworld.com\/fred\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions\/559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pworldrworld.com\/fred\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pworldrworld.com\/fred\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pworldrworld.com\/fred\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}