Robert Anton Wilson
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Guerrilla ontologist. Psychedelic magician. Outer head of the Illuminati. Quantum psychologist. Sit-down comic/philosopher. Discordian Pope.
c/robert-anton-wilson
Guerrilla ontologist. Psychedelic magician. Outer head of the Illuminati. Quantum psychologist. Sit-down comic/philosopher. Discordian Pope.
…have to repeat three times: nature is good, nature is good, nature is good. And as a non aristotelian disciple of Alfred Korzybski, I don't believe in the use of identity. I believe we're projecting outward what are internal evaluations in our nervous…
…to decipher it and we begin to be able to communicate. And this I call the time binding circuit in honor of Alfred Korzybski. Leary called it the laryngeal manual circuit. It has to do with making speech units that communicate to others and manipulating…
…have come true. The chief predictions that interested me when I first got into futurism were those by Bucky Fuller and Alfred Korzybski, both of whom said human knowledge would double faster than ever and it has. Human knowledge the total now is scientific…
…again by 1973 and has doubled a few more times since then and that I expected, because I did believe fuller and Korzybski were right in their mathematical projections that knowledge would be doubling faster all the time. And now it's doubled. Between 1900…
…the list is, if I can remember it, Ulysses by James Joyce the cantos of Ezra pound, science and sanity by Alfred Korzybski, Shakespeare, Ovid Chaucer, Justine by de sade because it raises all the questions nobody can answer. Two books by Nietzsche, the…
…In l a west l a out near Santa Monica? I was right in Hollywood. So tonight's lecture you're here to give the Alfred Korzybski Memorial lecture at the Harvard club you're the guest of the institute of general semantics and the title of your talk is:…
…read about 20 and they all disagree with one another. Besides writers, what thinkers do you feel have influenced you the most? Alfred Korzybski, Definitely in first place. I read Korzybski when I was about 18 and then I re read him several times in my…
…with one another. Besides writers, what thinkers do you feel have influenced you the most? Alfred Korzybski, Definitely in first place. I read Korzybski when I was about 18 and then I re read him several times in my 20s when I was first learning to…
…I was about 18 and then I re read him several times in my 20s when I was first learning to smoke pot and reading Korzybski on pot is absolutely the best way to read him. Every general semanticist in the country is going to hate me for saying that,…
…And everybody lives in a different universe and reading that on pot it was easy to understand. A lot of people can't understand Korzybski and I always tell them: well read him while you're stoned and then you begin to understand. And one of the main…
…well read him while you're stoned and then you begin to understand. And one of the main things I got from Korzybski was I call it neurological relativism. I forget when I coined that term, but it's parallel to Einstein's Instrumental relativism. Every…
…learn to decipher it we begin to be able to communicate. And this I call the time binding circuit in honor of Alfred Korzybski. Leary called it the laryngeal manual circuit. It has to do with making speech units that communicate to others and manipulating…
…have to repeat three times: nature is good, nature is good, nature is good. And as a non aristotelian disciple of Alfred Korzybski, I don't believe in the use of identity. I believe that's projecting outward what are internal evaluations in our nervous…
…of mystical connotations. In 1933 the atom was Split for the first time. King Kong was released and John Von Neumann and Alfred Korzybski in two separate books both suggested that we need to think in maybes, that either ors just do not cover our…
…Everything in quantum mechanics can't reduce to an either or. We got yes no and maybe all the time in the quantum realm. Korzybski pointed out this applies to human perception too. I hit the table and my hand didn't go through it. And I hit the…
…to decipher it and we begin to be able to communicate. And this I call the time binding circuit in honor of Alfred Korzybski. Leary called it the laryngeal manual circuit. It has to do with making speech units that communicate to others and manipulating…
…learn to decipher it we begin to be able to communicate and this I call the time binding circuit in honor of Alfred Korzybski. Leary called it the laryngeal manual circuit. It has to do with making speech units that communicate to others and manipulating…
…the list is if I can remember it, Ulysses by James Joyce, the cantos of Ezra pound, science and sanity by Alfred Korzybski, Shakespeare, Ovid, Chaucer, Justine by de sade because it raises all the questions nobody can answer two books by Nietzsche, the…
…since physicists have adopted the attitude of model agnosticism they've been more creative than any previous time in history. Alfred Korzybski, who tried to popularize model agnosticism in his book science and sanity, predicted that we would see more…
…of years racking my brain over that book about 20 years ago, and I got a great deal out of it. Oh well Korzybski is a pseudo scientist according to Martin Gardner Who's One of the leading spokesmen for psycop. You can't even read Korzybski That's…
…is a pseudo scientist according to Martin Gardner Who's One of the leading spokesmen for psycop. You can't even read Korzybski That's forbidden too. He's a quack also just like the parapsychologists, just like your friend Noman with his machine that…
…that I don't remember the titles of. And of course Sagan has billions of books, billions and billions. Who I have to mention about Korzybski? A couple of the ideas that I have left in my mind from him are the importance of the word all. That's why I…
…amount of time to study all of anything. So all you can talk about is some but not all. So that's my attempt to make Korzybski a little clearer by using a term he didn't use himself: some but all. That's like you can count the number of apples in a…
…that's common to all of us so we wouldn't be able to communicate at all. But most of the defects of communication, according to Korzybski, are caused by the fact we think everybody's living in the same world with us and when we find out they're not we…
…to accept neurological relativism I think is one of the great liberating discoveries of the 20th century and it's not just in Korzybski It's been discovered over and over again under various labels but Korzybski put it I think in the best terms. And the…
…discoveries of the 20th century and it's not just in Korzybski It's been discovered over and over again under various labels but Korzybski put it I think in the best terms. And the other thing I got from Korzybski of tremendous importance I got many…
…and over again under various labels but Korzybski put it I think in the best terms. And the other thing I got from Korzybski of tremendous importance I got many things but the second one I want to mention right now: the concept of time binding, which…
…is that language allows information to accumulate more and more rapidly as time passes. Now that's a commonplace thought but when Korzybski wrote it in 1933 it was a totally unexpected thought and he was attacked by the evolutionists for implying there…
…he was attacked by the evolutionists for implying there might be such a thing as progress instead of just random chance. But what Korzybski meant was that due to language I can receive signals from Confucius. As a matter of fact I got an edition of…
…more and more people, which means more and more changes in technology, which means more and more changes in society. So I read Korzybski around 1950 I guess and the last 50 years have not surprised me at all. I've been expecting rapid changes in the…
…you can count the number of apples in a tree but you can't count the number of trees in an Apple Exactly. Well I value Korzybski I'm sorry that he was a pseudoscientist and I'll have to try to forget all the things that I learned from him before we…
…air with Robert Anton Wilson Yeah I I was going to call you up um and uh disagree with you and say that you should meet Korzybski and then you told me that you uh honored him and it was a sartorium at the minute. Korzybski, no I I Hayakawa was one…
…that you should meet Korzybski and then you told me that you uh honored him and it was a sartorium at the minute. Korzybski, no I I Hayakawa was one of his students, though senator uh Hayakawa, Alexander the great was one of aristotle's students college…
…it's about reality and that was a very big experience for me to hear him say that and I realized that was true. Um, Korzybski, is that how you say his name, Korzybski? Korzybski Yeah, I read about him in uh players of null a, the science fiction book…
…big experience for me to hear him say that and I realized that was true. Um, Korzybski, is that how you say his name, Korzybski? Korzybski Yeah, I read about him in uh players of null a, the science fiction book by uh Van Vogt or however you pronounce…
…experience for me to hear him say that and I realized that was true. Um, Korzybski, is that how you say his name, Korzybski? Korzybski Yeah, I read about him in uh players of null a, the science fiction book by uh Van Vogt or however you pronounce his…
…um in terms of uh people who were called sophists. Well, non aristotelian logic uh also has a long history in the orient. Uh Korzybski was part of what I what I call the second wave of the de robotization of humanity. The first wave was Freud and Jung…
…humanity. The first wave was Freud and Jung and uh that crowd who first got us in touch with the unconscious. Then came Korzybski who showed how language hypnotizes us then came the psychedelic revolution and now I think we're in the midst of a much…