I have met a few of the luminaries of the third generation of "the devil's NLP" and I've learned enough speed hypnosis to call up people like that and get them to send me a free copy of their latest training materials but this does not help me with picking up girls.
On one hand I am trained as a physicist and work as a computer programmer and have a lot of respect for arch-reductionists like Forester and Minsky but I also have an a schizotypal brain that causes me to have unusual experiences: I have a knack for dowsing rods, pendulums, ouija boards and the like even if I don't believe in them.
Korzybski is an interesting case because you cannot get a good edition of his Science and Sanity so it is not possible to evaluate his work as a whole. I'd agree with L. Ron Hubbard (half jokingly) that Korzybski did not develop a workable system but Korzybski asked interesting questions and in some sense has less bullshit per mile than most approaches to getting more out of the human nervous system (e.g. I had a therapist who gave me CBT worksheets that Korzybski would have been giving out had he attained the "workable system")
On one hand I am trained as a physicist and work as a computer programmer and have a lot of respect for arch-reductionists like Forester and Minsky but I also have an a schizotypal brain that causes me to have unusual experiences: I have a knack for dowsing rods, pendulums, ouija boards and the like even if I don't believe in them.
Korzybski is an interesting case because you cannot get a good edition of his Science and Sanity so it is not possible to evaluate his work as a whole. I'd agree with L. Ron Hubbard (half jokingly) that Korzybski did not develop a workable system but Korzybski asked interesting questions and in some sense has less bullshit per mile than most approaches to getting more out of the human nervous system (e.g. I had a therapist who gave me CBT worksheets that Korzybski would have been giving out had he attained the "workable system")