He convened weekly dinners during which he them out, as well as his mushroom recipes, on a group of young artists, poets, and writers. I was fortunate to have been included at these dinners where we talked about media, communications, art, music, philosophy, the ideas of McLuhan and Norbert Wiener. Cage pointed out that we had to go beyond private and personal mind-sets and understand how radically things had changed. Mind had become socialized. Inspired also by architect-designer Buckminster Fuller, futurist John McHale, and cultural anthropologist Edward T. Hall, I began to read avidly in the field of information theory, cybernetics, and systems theory.
Reality is a man-made process.
Our images of our world and of ourselves are, in part, the models resulting from our perceptions of the technologies we generate as products. Man creates tools and then molds himself in their image. Some people can't even bear to think about this new epistemology. It tears apart the fabric of our habitual thinking. Subject and object fuse.