Yes. And the same Stafford Beer who wanted to build a computer out of a goddamn pond.
Beer also reported attempts to induce small organisms, Daphnia collected from a local pond, to ingest iron fillings so that input and output couplings to them could be achieved via magnetic fields, and another attempt to use a population of the protozoon Euglena via optical couplings. Beer’s last attempt in this series was to use not specific organisms but an entire pond ecosystem as a homeostatic controller.
Using my one wish to time travel in order to establish Salvador Allende as an eternal socialist dictator, giving Beer bags of bills with a dollar sign on them in order to fuel FALGSC via Patagonian rivers
Same Stafford Beer who worked on Project Cybersyn?
Yes. And the same Stafford Beer who wanted to build a computer out of a goddamn pond.
My man had a brain working in several cosmic multiverses
Using my one wish to time travel in order to establish Salvador Allende as an eternal socialist dictator, giving Beer bags of bills with a dollar sign on them in order to fuel FALGSC via Patagonian rivers
Sounds like it. He was into cybernetics and systems theory, anyways.