2. Ontological Theater

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. 1. The Adaptive Brain 1
5. 2. Ontological Theater 17
6. PART 1 : PSYCHIATRY TO CYBERNETICS
7. 3. Grey Walter: From Electroshock to the Psychedelic Sixties 37
8. 4. Ross Ashby: Psychiatry, Synthetic Brains, and Cybernetics 91
9. 5. Gregory Bateson and R. D. Laing: Symmetry, Psychiatry, and the Sixties 171
10. PART 2 : BEYOND THE BRAIN
11. 6. Stafford Beer: From the Cybernetic Factory to Tantric Yoga 215
12. 7. Gordon Pask: From Chemical Computers to Adaptive Archictecture 309
13. 8. Sketches of Another Future 379
14. Notes 403
15. References 479
16. Index 503