From: Integral World [newsletter@integralworld.net] Sent: zondag 3 augustus 2008 23:24 To: f.visser3@chello.nl Subject: [personal] Integral Ideology INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 251 Amsterdam, August 3rd, 2008 INTEGRAL IDEOLOGY: AN IDEOLOGICAL GENEALOGY OF INTEGRAL THEORY AND PRACTICS - Richard Carlson This paper explores the relationship between integral theory and ideology. I have identified three ideologies specific to a variety of integral theories and practices. In identifying these ideologies with those which influence world events, I refer to them as fundamentalist, neo-liberal, and neo-conservative. My hope is to provide an in depth analysis of how particular integral theories and practices lend themselves to the three ideological orientations under review. Any attempt to understand the reasons that these ideologies have crept into specific integral theories or practices requires tracing their genealogy. In tracing genealogies I wish to show that the ideological sources particular to specific integral theories and practices are not only to be found in historical figures or events but are to be located through an excavation of their very organizing ideas. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/carlson.html IS CONSCIOUSNESS PHYSICAL? - David & Andrea Lane a number of neuroscientists and philosophers have becoming increasingly interested in trying to explain consciousness without resorting to any sort of spiritual or metaphysical explanations. Thinkers such as the late Francis Crick, Gerald Edelman, V.S. Ramachandran, Paul and Patricia Churchland, and John Searle have in their differing ways attempted to explain how the brain gives rise to our self awareness. For these thinkers there is no mysterious "ghost" in the machine, but rather something much more straightforward. As Crick clearly stated in his 1994 book, "The Astonishing Hypothesis is that 'You,' your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules. As Lewis Carroll's Alice might have phrased it: 'you're nothing but a pack of neurons.' This hypothesis is so alien to the ideas of most people alive today that it can be truly called astonishing." Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/lane4.html If you know other people interested in this Integral World Newsletter, please forward this mail to them. Thanks. To SUBSCRIBE to this Integral World Newsletter or change your email address, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/subscribe.php To UPDATE your email address or UNSUBSCRIBE, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/login.php