c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…bridges between these two concerns which seem so different as far as people and machines are concerned and it was Ludwig Von Bertalanffy, I think, who said in his book general systems theory he said people are not machines, but in every opportunity…
…habituate and addict to not only drugs and foods, but behavior patterns, ideologies, routines. The founder of general systems theory, Ludwig Von Bertalanffy, said once an amusing thing. He said I would hope people are not machines but in every situation in…
…have a life of their own that is anti humanist. There is definitely an anti humanist tendency in all systems. Ludwig Von Bertalanffy, who was the inventor of general systems theory, said: you know people are not machines, but in every situation where…
…process. It's almost as though we are continuously calcifying and yet we must not let that happen. I think it was Ludwig Von Bertalanffy who said: human beings are not machines, but in every situation, given their own will, they will behave like machines,…