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To cure the patient, wemust first diagnose soci-ety.Thus,westartbyex-

amining one of its chief con-tagions, Norbert Wiener(1894-1964),“pioneer”ofinfor-mationtheoryandcoineroftheterm cybernetics; a creaturewhose vision for the cyber-futureisnotmuchdifferentfromthatoftheevilH.G.Wells,oneof “OneWorld Government.”1Wienerwrites,

Very many of the factors which previouslyprecludedaWorldStatehavebeenabrogat-ed.Itisevenpossibletomaintainthatmoderncommunication, which forces us to adjudi-cate the international claims of differentbroadcasting systems and different airplanenets,hasmadetheWorldStateinevitable.

Itispreciselythisfantasyofa“worldstate”thatWiener’sworktookstridestoproduce.Hewasjoinedinthisen-deavorbymanyoftheleadingsocialengineersofthecounter-culturemovement,includingthefamedsex-crazedanthropolo-gistMargaretMead,andtheGratefulDeadcreator,psychiatristGregoryBateson,bothofwhomwereamongthemany“socialscientists”whoparticipatedintheCyberneticsConferencesof

1. See Matthew Ogden, “The Noösphere vs. the Blogosphere,” Is the Devil in Your Laptop?, LaRouche PAC pamphlet, November 2007, available at www. larouchepac.com.

the1940s,hostedbytheJosiahMacy,Jr.Foundation.2

Wiener’snotion,thatthecomputerwasaperfectmimicofthehumanbrain,iswhatthesesocialengineersfoundparticularlyuseful,andtheythoughtthatcomputerscouldplayasimilarrole

2. See David Christie, “INSNA: ‘Handmaidens of British Colonialism,’ ” Is the Devil in Your Laptop?, LaRouche PAC pamphlet, November 2007.

HOW NORBERT WIENER ATTEMPTED TO KILL SCIENCE

Only Diseased Minds Believe in Entropyby Creighton Cody Jones

Cybernetics cult leader Norbert Wiener imposed his entropic view of the universe on mankind by building it into his artificial “information soci-ety.” His book covers depict the ugly story.

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asLSDforuseinmindcontrol—tocreate“concentrationcampswithouttears.”Butperhapsthemostsinisterofthosewhoclus-teredwiththelikesofWienerwasJohnvonNeumann,whose“TheoryofGames”becametheeconomic-socialconstructthatcyberneticspluggedinto,andisthetheoreticalbasisformuchofthefascist,economicmass-murderpoliciesofglobalizationto-day.

The Devil Flies the Union JackButfirst,tounderstandNorbert,youmustcometoknowhis

ownpersonalDr.Faust,themanLyndonLaRouchehasdubbed“themostevilmanofthe20thCentury,”BertrandRussell.3Herewespeakofaman,whoundertheabusivehandofhisgrand-father,one-timeBritishPrimeMinisterLordJohnRussell,wasbredtobeanembittereddefenderofoligarchicracialism,whoseonlylovebecamethehatredofmankind,anditsprincipalde-fender,theUnitedStates.4

Russell’sdevilishpessimismoozesoutofhisbookTheImpactofScienceonSociety(1953),wherehewrote,“Lifeisabrief,smallandtransitoryphenomenoninanobscurecorner...notatallthesortofthingonewouldmakeafussaboutifonewerenotpersonallyconcerned.”Andlater,indiscussingthethreattothearistocraticwayoflifeposedbyhumanprogressandpopulationgrowth,Russellwrote:

3. Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., “How Bertrand Russell Became an Evil Man,” Fide-lio, Fall 1994. Available at www.schillerinstitute.org.

4. Lord John Russell’s role as an anti-American shows roots in his role as for-eign secretary, at one time serving under Lord Palmerston. He met with Confed-erate Commissioner James Murray Mason, and organized across Europe for support of the Confederacy. See A.R. Tyrner-Tyrnauer, Lincoln and the Emper-ors (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962).

The danger of a world shortage offoodmaybeavertedforatimebyim-provementsinthetechniquesofagri-culture.But,ifpopulationcontinuesto increaseat thepresent rate, suchimprovements can not long suffice.Therewill thenbe twogroups, onepoorwithan increasingpopulation,theotherrichwithstationarypopula-tion.Suchasituationcanhardlyfailtoleadtowar....Warmaybecomesodestructivethat,atanyrateforatime,thereisnodangerofoverpopulation,or the scientificnationsmaybede-featedandanarchymaydestroysci-entifictechnique....

Thus,Russelltookitasapersonalmis-siontocompletethejobbegunbyVen-ice’sPaoloSarpi(1552-1623):todestroyscientificprogressanditsgenerator,cre-ativethinking.Sarpimustberecognizedasthemanwho,inthe16th-17thCentu-

ry,facedwiththeannihilationoftheVenetianoligarchybythehandofscientificprogressthathademergedoutoftheRenais-sance,developedthevirusofempiricism,spreadbyhislackeyGalileo,asameansofembracingsciencewithonehand,andstabbingitinthebackwiththeother.

SoRussellbeganearlyinhisacademiclife,bysophisticallyattacking twoof theprimarycontributors tomodernscience:GottfriedLeibniz,thefounderofthecalculus,whoseconceptofthe immortalityof thesoulRussell tookparticular issuewith;andBernhardRiemann,discovereroftheprincipleofhigher-order, transcendental, upward development in mathematicalphysics,andwhomEinsteinacknowledged,alongwithJohannesKepler,asthebookendstothecreationofmodernphysics.

ItwasinRiemann’sHypothesesThatLieattheFoundationsofGeometry,thathebrokethesilenceonthesuppressiverolethatEuclid,anAristoteliandeploymentagainsttheworkofPlatoandthePythagoreans,hadplayedinthehistoryofscience.Riemannattackedthenotionofapproachingtheinvestigationofrealitywithanapriorisetofaxioms,fromwhichourinterpretationofeventswastobelogicallyderived.Riemannproved,rather,thattheuniversewasonecharacterizedbyprogressivechange,fromlower,tohigherorderstatesofexistence.Yet,despitethesedis-coveriesgroundedinexperimentaltruth,Russellinsisted,asinhisPrincipiaMathematica,onananti-creativedescriptionofaclosedEuclidianuniverse,oneoffixedlogicalconsistency.One,ofcourse,devoidofhumanprogressandbeauty.

. . . It Will Be a Cold Life in HellIt is from the teat of this swine, thatWiener suckled, and,

therefore, contracted the Sarpi virus, with the correspondingevilworldviewofpessimism.TothiseffectWienerwritesinThe

Library of Congress

Cybernetics cultists Margaret Mead and her husband Gregory Bateson, shown here in 1938 in Tambunam, New Guinea, where they were researching the native population.

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HumanUseofHumanBeings:

Soonerorlaterweshalldie,anditishighly probable that the whole uni-verse around us will die the heat-death,inwhichtheworldwillbere-duced to one vast temperatureequilibrium in which nothing reallyneweverhappens.Therewillbenoth-ing left but a drab uniformity out ofwhichwecanexpectonlyminorandinsignificantlocalfluctuations.

It is this Gnostic belief in an entropicuniverse,withitssubsumingpurposeless,andbestialviewofman,thatWienersetsto imposeonsociety, throughbuildingitintothefabricofhisartificialsocietyofin-formation.Herewesee,intheformofthataxiomofentropy,builtintothesystemastruthbyWiener,what Lyndon LaRouchedubbed“TheForceofTragedy”5—abeliefactingasakindof“invisiblefence”ofthemind,herdingthosewho,inthiscase,wouldhookthefateoftheirnationtothatbe-liefinthetruthfulrepresentationofrealityby“informationsys-tems,”totheirowninevitableheat-death.

Governedbythisbeliefhimself,Wienerbegantheprefacetothesecondeditionofhisprincipalwork,Cybernetics,wherehiswickedancestorshadleftoff:withasinisterattackontheepis-temologyresponsibleformankind’sdevelopmentandsurvival.Intryingtoconveythestateofaffairsofscienceathistime,heindicateswhatsideofthebattlehe’son,bymaliciouslydisre-gardingscientificrevolutionaryJohannesKeplerandfocussingratheronthosewhomKeplerhimselfhadrefuted.Wienerwrotethat:

theresultwasthatthestudyofnon-linearelectricalen-gineeringwasgettingintoastatecomparablewiththatofthelatestagesofthePtolemaicsystemofastronomy,in which epicycle was piled on epicycle, correctionuponcorrection,untilavastpatchworkstructureulti-matelybrokeunderitsownweight.JustastheCoperni-cansystemaroseoutofthewreckoftheover-strainedPtolemaicsystem,withasimpleandnaturalheliocen-tricdescriptionofthemotionsoftheheavenlybodiesinsteadofthe...complicatedPtolemaicgeocentricsys-tem,sothestudyofnon-linearstructuresandsystems,whetherelectricalormechanical,naturalorartificial,has needed a fresh and independent point of com-mencement.

5. Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., “The Force of Tragedy,” Executive Intelligence Review, Nov. 9, 2007.

Thuswesee,consistentwithhisstateofmindthroughoutthebook,andhislife’swork,Wiener,inclassicsophiststyle,choos-estomisdirecttheaudiencetotheformal,mechanisticdistinc-tionbetweenPtolemyandCopernicus,asopposedtotheprin-cipled, physical contribution of Kepler. That Wiener wouldconvenientlydoso,shouldcomeasnosurprisetoanyonefamil-iar with Kepler’s The New Astronomy and Harmony of theWorld,whereKeplerprovestheanti-entropicnatureoftheuni-verse, contrary toWiener’s politically imposed assertionof aworldheadedforheat-death(entropy).

Information Theory Is Not Cognitive PowerWienerthentrulybetrayshismotives,andspellsoutthedoom

ofthosewhobuyintohisCyberneticscrapshoot.Hesays,“Itturnsoutthattheoverwhelmingimportanceofatrigonometricanalysisinthetreatmentoflinearphenomenadoesnotpersistwhenwecometoconsidernon-linearphenomena,”andthen,“Whatitamountstoinpracticeisthattheappropriatetestinputforthestudyofnon-linearsystemsisratherofthecharacteroftheBrownianMotionthanasetoftrigonometricfunctions.”

Tounderstandthedeeperepistemological,andconsequentlyexistentialimplicationsofwhatmightotherwiseappeartobeamatterofformality,oneneedreflectuponthetruearcofdevel-opmentofmodernscience,withitsancientrootsintheEgyptianandGreekinvestigationofante-Euclidiansphericalgeometry.For,toknowthehistoryofscienceistoknowthehistoryofcivi-lization,andto“own”aproofastohowmanhassurvived,andmustcontinuetodoso.

ItiswiththisunderstandingthatLyndonLaRoucheconstitut-edtheLaRoucheYouthMovement(LYM)“basementteams,”inanefforttobreathelifebackintothegreatideasonwhichman’ssurvivalhasbeencontingent,and,togiveaglimmerofhopeto

The LYM-authored pamphlet “Is the Devil in Your Laptop?” was published in November 2007 with the intention of saving the United States from its own self-destruction. The introduction notes that “although the contents of this pamphlet will be immediately painful to the minds of those readers, who might be intricately involved in “all the rave” about MySpace, Face-book, and computer games, the joy of being freed from mental slavery, thus engaging in solving our present world’s dangerous problems, will, in the longer term, greatly outweigh the short-term pain, of tearing yourself from a beloved, but deadly, folly.”

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ourposterity.Theseareteamsofyoungadults,taskedwithrigorously working to rediscover the great paradigm-changingdiscoveriesofthepast,soastolawfullycom-municatehowtoprovokesuchdiscoveriesofprincipleinthemindsofpeersandfuturegenerations.

Tothatend,theLYMbeginsinthepenumbraofPythag-orasandPlato,with the revolutionarydiscoveryof thefounderofmodernscience,NicolasofCusa:thatthecir-clehas a “transcendental” relationship to thepolygon,andthatquadratureofthecircleisanontologicalabsur-dity.Inotherwords,thecircleisofahigherspecies,andhasitsgenerativeorigininadomainaboveandbeyond“knowability” from the domain of the Euclidian“straight.”

Fromherethejourneycontinues,onitswaytotheenig-maticC.F.GaussandhissuperiorstudentBernhardRie-mann,throughastudentofCusa,thediscovererofuniver-salgravitation,JohannesKepler,whosechallengetofuturemathematicians,todiscovertheappropriatemathemati-callanguageforproperlyinvestigatingthecharacteristicchangeof thatellipticalgeometrycorresponding tohisdiscovery(whatwouldbecomeknownasthecalculus),bringsustoournextscientist,GottfriedLeibniz,andthepointofcurrentemphasis.

Asacolleague,andcurrentmemberoftheLYM“basementteam,”pointedout,JohannBernoulli,friendandcollaboratorofLeibniz,thediscovererofthecalculus,hypothesizedthatsinceheandLeibnizhadsolvedtheproblemoffindingthefunctionsthatexpressthecharacteristicchangeofcircularandhyperbolictranscendentalaction,alloneneeddotosolvetheintegralofanycurve,istofindtherightcombinationofcirclesandhyperbolasthatconstructthecurve,andapplytherulesal-ready worked out. Again, Leibniz deemed these integrals“transcendental.”

ThisworkgavewaytothediscoveriesofGauss(thecomplexdomain)andRiemann,whodiscoveredtheprincipleof“higher-transcendentals,”beyondeventhesimplecirculartranscenden-talofCusaandLeibniz,whatmightbecallhyper-sphericalge-ometries.

Thepointtobegleanedfromthisbriefsketchofthecurveofdevelopmentofrealscience, is thatacertain“trigonometric”(sine,cosine,etc.),orbetter,circular/sphericalinvariant,persistsateverystepalongtheway.Itispreciselythishistory,thehistoryoftheincreasingpowerofmankind,andcorrespondingmeth-od,notsimplytheformalityofchoosingonemathematicsoveranother,whichWienerisattackingwhenhesaysthat“trigono-metricanalysis” loses its importancewithhisnewscienceof“communication.”

Thus, similar to the Southern slaveowner, Norbert Wienerwouldputtodeaththosewhowouldfreeslaves’mindsbyteach-ingthemhowtoread.

Tothispoint,oftheprimacyofcircularandhighertranscen-dental functions, inspiredby theartofSphaerics,LyndonLa-Rouchewrites:

At first impression, the starry universe appears to bespherical.Whyisthatso?Doesthatappearancenotim-ply that a quality of “sphericalness” bounds the uni-verse?Ifso,doessomethingelse,ofastillhigherauthor-ity, bound that apparently spherical quality ofboundedness?Thesearenotmerelycoincidentalques-tions;thesequestionsimplyadifferentquestionofdead-lyseriousness:Howwasthisstubbornlypersistentap-pearance of spherical boundedness generated for themindofman?

Twogreatquestionsareimpliedinthatsetofques-tions.Thefirstofthesequestions,isexpressedintheformoftheelementarynotionofananti-Euclideange-ometryofthetypeunderlyingthephysicalscienceofthe Pythagoreans and the related circles of SocratesandPlato.Thesecond,deeperquestion,whichisalsoimpliedincertainfeaturesoftheirwork,asalsothefa-mousargumentofHeracleitus,is,towhatdegreeistheway in which we acquire reliable scientific knowl-edge, itselfa reflectionof the“architecture”ofwhatappeartobethespecificallybiologicalconditionsun-derwhichallvalidhumanknowledgeoftheuniverseisorganized?6

Togofurtherastothetrueexistentialquestionbeingposedinexposingthefraud,andevilintentofWienerandthe“truebe-lievers”ofcyberneticsanddigitalinformationtheory,wemustlookat theessenceofwhatWiener says is the“appropriate”mathematicstobeused.Instatingthatwewillconstructasys-

6. Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., “On Vernadsky’s Space: More on the Calculus,” Executive Intelligence Review, Oct. 5, 2007, p. 34.

Bertrand Russell followed in the footsteps of Venetian operative Paolo Sarpi, in his mission to destroy scientific progress, and its generator, human creativity. It was from Russell that Wiener contracted the Sarpi “virus.”

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temthatusesfunctionsderivedfrominvestigationsofBrownianMotion,heissayingthatourworldwillbeonethatisfundamen-tallyrandom,thereforeontologicallyunknowable,andonlyca-pableofbeinganalyzedbyinfiniteapproximations,andstatisti-cal analysis. This means that the transcendental will beeliminated, and replacedwithanapproximation.That is,wewillconstructasystemthatmaintainstotalmathematicalcon-sistency,totheeffectthatthesortofparadoxthataroseinat-temptingto“squarethecircle,”whichthusgaverisetoCusa’sdiscoveryofthetranscendental,andthesubsequentunleashingofhumanistscience,iseliminated.

Considerfurthertheideaofcompoundcircularactionasaprojection of compound least-action processes, where weunderstandleastaction,asauniversalcharacteristic,ofeachand all of an array of universal physical principles, whichthemselvesreflectaboundinguniversalintentionofupward-ly developing change (i.e., anti-entropy). In mathematicalphysics,eachhigher-orderdiscoveryofprinciplewillbeofa“transcendentalform,”recognizedonlyasaparadoxfromtheviewpointofthelowerstateofunderstanding,yetknowableasanewprinciplebythemindthatdiscoversit.Theintegrat-ingofthatnewlydiscoveredprincipleintoourcognitivemapoftheuniversehasthedynamiceffectoftransformingalltheinternalrelationsofthought,suchastoaccountforthenewlydiscovered, everywhere-acting (universal) principle, to theeffectthatwhatwas“true”becomesaninfinitelydistantpar-odyofournowmoreappropriateunderstandingofthe“real”universe.

Thisischaracteristicofthecalculus,whereatvariousinflec-tionpoints in thehistoryof thatbranchofscience’sdevelop-ment,integralswerefoundasexpressionsofnewlyinvestigatedphysicalcurvesoractions,suchasLeibniz’sinvestigationofthecatenarycurve,orGauss’sworkonthelemniscatecurve,whosesolutionsdidnotcorrespondtothemathematicalrulesdevel-opedup to thatpoint.Thesenewunsolvablecurvesbecameknownashigher-transcendental,as,forexample,theellipticalintegral.

I Find No Reason in Your LogicAgainstwhathasjustbeensaid,readfromchapterfiveofCy-

bernetics, “Computing Machines and the Nervous System,”whereWienerequatesthehumanbraintoalogicalbinarysys-tem.Hewrites:

Aproofrepresentsalogicalprocesswhichhascometoa definitive conclusion in a finite number of stages.However, a logical machine following definite rulesneednevercometoaconclusion.Itmaygoongrindingthroughdifferentstageswithoutevercomingtoastop,eitherbydescribingapatternofactivityofcontinuallyincreasingcomplexity,orbygoingintoarepetitivepro-cessliketheendofachessgameinwhichthereisacon-tinuingcycleofperpetualcheck.ThisoccursinthecaseofsomeparadoxesofCantorandRussell.Letuscon-

sidertheclassofallclasseswhicharenotmembersofthemselves.Isthisclassamemberofitself?Ifitis,itiscertainly not amember of itself; and if it is not, it isequallycertainlyamemberofitself.Amachinetoan-swerthisquestionwouldgivethesuccessivetemporaryanswers:“yes,”“no,”“yes,”“no,”andsoon,andwouldnevercometoequilibrium.

Bertrand Russell’s solution of his own paradoxeswastoaffixtoeverystatementaquantity,theso-calledtype,whichservestodistinguishbetweenwhatseemsto be formally the same statement, according to thecharacteroftheobjectswithwhichitconcernsitself—whethertheseare“things,”inthesimplestsense,class-esof “things,” classesof classesof “things,” etc.Themethodbywhichweresolvetheparadoxesisalsotoattachaparameter toeach statement, thisparameterbeingthetimeatwhichitisasserted.Inbothcases,weintroducewhatwemaycallaparameterofuniformiza-tion,toresolveanambiguitywhichissimplyduetoitsneglect.

InWiener’sflatworldofinformation,paradoxisreducedtoasimpleformality,toberesolvedassuch.Forexample,Wienerdemonstratesthisontologicallyflawed“squaringofthecircle”approach to the “transcendental” elliptical function, writing,“Whenitcomestoequationsoftheellipticaltype,wherethenaturaldataareboundaryvaluesratherthaninitialvalues,thenaturalmethodsofsolutioninvolveaniterativeprocessofsuc-cessiveapproximation.”

Thus,theveryelementofparadoxandironywhichhasbeenthehistorickeytoprovokingthecreativemind,todiscoverthepreviouslyunknownprinciplesofreality,hasbeeneliminated.Hence,progresshasbeeneliminated;itisan“endofhistory”paradigm.Hereliesthetruethreattomankind’scontinuedexis-tence:Entropyhasbeenbuiltintothesystemasacontrollingfactor,guidingittoaninevitable“Doom.”Therefore,totheex-tentthatcurrentsocietyandeconomyhaveattachedthemselvestocyberneticsandinformationtheory,civilizationisfatedtothetragicheat-deathWienersadisticallylustsfor.

Let’sgojustonemore,crucialstepfurther,inunderstandingtheexistentialnatureoftheproblem.

Cyborg Existentialist and the Economics of DoomThefantasizedpinnacleofWiener’sworldprovidesuswiththe

clearestviewofitsdeadlyends,whenseenthroughtheeyeofphysical economy. In the concluding chapters of Cybernetics,Wiener states thepossibilityofa futurewith learning-capable,self-reproducingmachines,muchlikethatdepictedbyGeorgeShultz’scyborgwind-upgovernor,ArnoldSchwarzenegger,intheapocalypticmovieTerminator.But,likeallcomputersorlogicalsystems,allthedecisionsandpolicyofthosemachineswillbenothing more than a logical deduction—however clever andcomplicateditmaybe—fromasetofrulesandaxiomsofitsinitialprogrammer.Thereisnopossibilityfordiscoveryofanewuniver-

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salprincipleofscience,withitsmani-festarrayofnewhigher-power (thatis,transcendental)technologies.

Therefore,if,forexample,thepro-grammer of the system had neverprogrammed into thecomputer thenewlydiscoveredprinciplesassoci-ated with the organization of thesub-atomicnucleus,then,evengiv-en an infinite amount of time, thecomputerwouldnever itself gener-atethatprincipleanditsimplicationsfor itself. For each new discovery,relative to its predecessors, is of ahigher-transcendental quality (pre-ciselythatqualitythathasbeenelim-inatedbyWiener),andnotsuscepti-ble to discovery through eitherlogicaldeductionor induction,butonly through the uniquely humanactoffundamentaldiscovery.Ithasbeen precisely this process of dis-coveryand integrationofnewuni-versal principles, that has enabledmankindtocontinuetogrowinpop-ulationand increase its living stan-dards, throughthecreationofnew,

more efficient and power-intensetechnologies,suchasnuclearpower,with the corresponding increase inproductionpotential,utilizingnewlydefinedresource-bases,suchasura-niumtosupersedecoaloroil.

So it will be, that that futuristicworldof “flabinators,”who lack thepowertodiscovernewuniversalprin-ciples,andwillbe forced to“repro-duce” in anentropicworldoffixedanddiminishingresources,eventuallycannibalizing each other for spareparts.Sowouldbethedismalfutureofushumans,werewe tocontinue todeny that in ourselves which trulymakesusuniquelyhuman,andtieourfuturetothattragicbeliefintheflat,logicalworldof“informationtheory.”

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Creighton Cody Jones is a La-RoucheYouth Movement leader inLosAngeles.Thisarticleispartofthepamphlet“IstheDevil inYourLap-top?”andanearlierversionalsoap-pearedinExecutiveIntelligenceRe-view,Jan.4,2008.

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s portrayal of a cyborg in the move Terminator typifies Wiener’s notion of a learning-capable, self-reproducing machine (an ontological absurdity).

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