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From: dryfoo@athena.mit.edu (Gary L. Dryfoos)
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Subject: Re: Timothy Leary, Amiga, and Cyberpunk
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Date: 8 Apr 88 14:12:29 GMT
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In article <17391@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> jbn@glacier.UUCP (John B. Nagle) writes:
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>      Leary has been going around saying "Tune in, turn on, and boot up".
>But he hasn't shipped the software yet.  Probably bombed his mind back in
>the 60s and can't program well enough.

Nasty, nasty.  Tiny Doctor Tim is in fine and cheery shape.  Anyway, he
doesn't write the programs himself.  He designs the stuff and works with
programmers.  I know he's become a popular icon of 60's burnout, but
it ain't so, Joe.

I've played with his Mind Mirror, and though parts of it *are* silly,
it's a good introduction to an interesting technique of psychological
testing and rating that he developed years ago.  If you've never seen
Leary's techniques multiple-axis personality evaluation, there's also a
good introduction in his _Changing My Mind, Among Others_

Any time someone has truly new ideas, I expect to find the diamonds
embedded in horse-shit.  It comes with the territory.  (Read what
Copernicus _really_ wrote about in his new theory of the solar system,
for instance.)  Leary's theory's of the mind are nicely elaborated in
R.A.Wilson's _Prometheus Rising_ -- and they are *not* just a lot of
burned-out New Age chin dribblings.

If the Good Doctor reads this newsgroup, he can defend his own work from
now on, but I thought I'd put in a good word.
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