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I know more about many of the names in this book in 2010 than I did when I read it in 2009. Currently looking for recognition of elite thinking, I found a comment by Lettvin on the gleeful hubris with which Warren S. McCulloch and Walter Pitts attempted to describe logical operations in the brain for a higher function that required an unutterably complicated system. (p. 233). I wish I knew that was what I wanted the first time I read this book.

Those who would like to see the background which allowed Michel Foucault to emerge as an expert in the way civilized society attempts to deal with people who are considered mad by people who no longer function well together would benefit from the context in which professionals who had competing responsibilites could observe each other trying the same aspects of psychotic multiplicity on each other again and again without finding the kind of resolution any sane society would insist upon. Foucault gets quoted and mentioned as a frame of reference suitable in 1991 for understanding issues raised in Macy conferences and subsequent papers by the outstanding participants.