The transmission
The Teachers
1,020 who carried the discovery — across Hermetic, Vedic, Sufi, mystic, scientific, and modern streams. Start with the essential few, or browse by family and tradition.
1,020 teachers · 42 traditions
27 teachers
Cybernetics & Systems Theory
Alfred Korzybski
The map is not the territory
1879-1950
Cybernetics & Systems Theory
Maxwell Maltz
Self-image as servo-mechanism
1889-1975
Cybernetics & Systems Theory
Norbert Wiener
Founder of cybernetics
1894-1964
Cybernetics & Systems Theory
Warren McCulloch
He recast the firing neuron as a logic gate, proposing that the brain computes and that thought is, at root, a…
1898–1969
Cybernetics & Systems Theory
W. Ross Ashby
He showed that only variety can absorb variety, giving control its first exact law.
1903–1972
Cybernetics & Systems Theory
Gregory Bateson
Mind as pattern & relationship
1904-1980
Cybernetics & Systems Theory
Heinz von Foerster
Second-order cybernetics
1911-2002
Cybernetics & Systems Theory
Alan Turing
He defined what it means to compute and then dared to ask whether a machine could think, framing the question…
1912–1954
Cybernetics & Systems Theory
José Silva
Alpha-state mind control
1914-1999
Cybernetics & Systems Theory
John C. Lilly
Mind as programmable biocomputer
1915-2001
Cybernetics & Systems Theory
Virginia Satir
Family systems and the change process
1916-1988
Cybernetics & Systems Theory
Claude Shannon
He turned the slippery notion of information into a precise, measurable quantity, giving the mind-as-machine i…
1916–2001
Cybernetics & Systems Theory
Walter Pitts
He proved that networks of simple logical neurons could, in principle, compute anything a mind can.
1923–1969
Cybernetics & Systems Theory
Humberto Maturana
Autopoiesis & observer-dependent reality
1928-2021
Cybernetics & Systems Theory
Amos Tversky
Systematic cognitive bias in judgment under uncertainty
1937-1996
Cybernetics & Systems Theory
John Grinder
Linguistic modeling of excellence
1940-present
Cybernetics & Systems Theory
Douglas Hofstadter
Strange loops & self-reference
1945-present
Cybernetics & Systems Theory
Francisco Varela
Enaction & embodied mind
1946-2001
Cybernetics & Systems Theory
Richard Bandler
Neuro-Linguistic Programming
1950-present
Cybernetics & Systems Theory
Rick Hanson
Self-directed neuroplasticity; taking in the good
1952-present
Cybernetics & Systems Theory
Norman Doidge
Neuroplasticity popularization
1953-present
Cybernetics & Systems Theory
Andy Clark
Predictive mind & extended cognition
1957-present
Cybernetics & Systems Theory
Daniel Siegel
Interpersonal neurobiology; mindsight; integration
1957-present
Cybernetics & Systems Theory
Thomas Metzinger
The ego tunnel / no-self
1958-present
Cybernetics & Systems Theory
Karl Friston
Free energy & predictive brain
1959-present
Cybernetics & Systems Theory
Hal Hershfield
Future self-continuity
1979-present
Cybernetics & Systems Theory
Daniel Schmachtenberger
Our civilization's existential risks are downstream of broken sensemaking and misaligned incentives, and only…
c. 1980–present