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type: note
tags: [cybernetics, systems theory, macy conferences, social science, anthropology, psychology, note]
created: 2026-02-11T01:06:22.446+00:00
updated: 2026-04-06T10:49:30.274328+00:00
---# Macy group

Kurt Lewin, Margaret Mead, Norbert Wiener, Stewart Brand, John Brockman, John Cage, Buckminster Fuller,

1953, Heinz von Foerster becomes the secretary of the Macy conferences

Forster is one of the pioneers of the theory of constructivism, according to which we human beings construct our own reality.

The ‘biological computer lab’ at the university of Illinois.


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**Keywords:** cybernetics, systems theory, macy conferences, social science, anthropology, psychology, note
