Herbert Brün Society

This folder contains material from all 1968 1969 and 1970 when the Heuristic course was offered throught the Chemistry Department. Yes, the syllabus for the Spring 1970 Heuristics show a course listing of Chem 199 for undergraduates, and Chem 490 for graduate students (see below). Pre-PWE Folder 53. There is no course roster for the 1970 course, though they exist for the 1968 and 1969 offerings in the Electronic Engineering Dept. It appears to be the first time that “desire statements” were requested as something resembling “false statements” as they later came to be known. A paper by a graduate student named Charles Bull entitled “Hueristics 1970 Desires Paper” [sic] for instance, includes a list entitled “Statements I would like to be true statements irrespective of proofs of their truth” (see below). Bull’s paper is part of a larger collection of “Desire Papers” all of which seem to be obeying some sort of request to re-format their desires as though they are condition or entities. That is, the phrase “I desire…” doesn’t appear, though the things listed are desired. A fuzzy typewritten text also appears, entitled “On Truth (And Anarchy)” which might be attributable to Brün (?) (see below) — anyone want to type it in more legibly?