Bob's Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture - MP3 & PDF

topic posted Tue, January 27, 2009 - 5:28 AM by  Frank
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Here's a link to Bob's hour-long Korzybski Memorial Lecture, delivered at the New York Society of General Semantics in 1997.

The lecture is available both as an MP3 file -- for those with slow connections note that it is just shy of 27 MB -- and, for those who prefer to get their information Gutenberg-style, as a PDF transcript.

The first three minutes, during which he talks about trying to figure out the name of the city in which he lives, is classic Bob: a hilarious story in its own right yet one that simultaneously makes a deeper point. Even if you already "have too much to listen to" or you've heard it all before from Mr. Wilson, at least treat yourself to those few minutes, although it's all well worth listening to IMHO. I mean, don't you want to learn about "self-hypnotic ideational trance"?

Enjoy!

www.generalsemantics.org/misc/...l.html

Numerous other Memorial Lectures are available on the page as well.

-Frank Sullivan
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Frank
Miami
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  • I was at that lecture and remember that I thought it was one of his best, even tho afterwards he told us that he was running on no sleep and wasn't too sure of what he was doing. I loved it and so did many of the audience members, tho there were some hardline GS guys who seemed a bit disturbed by it during the Q&A section.

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