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1942: The Cerebral Inhlbition Meeting, sponsored by the Josiah Macy Foundation, organized by Frank Fremont-Smith. Gregory Bateson, Margaret Mead, and five others members of the (later) Cybernetics Group attended. Meeting focused on "physiological mechanisms underlying the phenomena of conditioned reflexes and hypnosis as related to the problem of cerebral inhibition. " Long Island Biological Laboratories research project, headed by Harold Abramson, established in patt with Macy funds, and with suppolt from the War Department. Abramson was then a Major in the Technical Division, Chemical Warfare service. 
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