Van: "Integral World" Aan: Onderwerp: Integral Egos Datum: zondag 8 december 2013 20:01 INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 477 Amsterdam, December 8th, 2013 SHELDRAKE AND EVO-DEVO I am preparing an essay on the subject of evo-devo, and having studied both fields, I have the feeling that Sheldrake's theory of morphic resonance (meant to solve the "onsolved" problem of morphogenesis), published in 1981, has been made obsolete by the Evo-Devo revolutions of the '80 and '90 (Sean Carroll et. al). Is anybody of you entertaining ideas about this, either way, let me know! Frank INTEGRAL EGOS GONE WILD - Wilber and Cohen Relish Worship - BRIAN HINES I used to have a love-hate thing going on with Ken Wilber and his Integral philosophy. Last night, though, I got around to reading the September - November 2009 issue of EnlightenNext, a magazine devoted to uncritical lauding of Wilber's work, along with that of his Integral comrade, Andrew Cohen. When I got through reading "The Second Face of God," I'd reached a clear conclusion: Wilber and Cohen aren't aiming to go beyond the limitations of religiosity in their quest for an Integral spirituality; they're out to found a new religion -- with themselves as the worshipful objects of devotion. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/hines2.html CONSCIOUSNESS: SO SIMPLE, SO COMPLEX - A Reply to David Lane - ANDREW P. SMITH David Lane's recent post, “The Synthetic Self” briefly discusses Christof Koch's view that consciousness should be understood as integrated information (the theory being called integrated information theory, or IIT). This theory is derived originally from work by Giulio Tononi and Gerald Edelman (Tononi and Edelman 1998; Edelman and Tononi 2000), who developed a definition of complexity in terms of information flow among different regions of the brain. More specifically, they proposed that complexity in a system results from a complex balance between differentiation or autonomy of its individual parts, on the one hand, and integration or interaction of different parts, on the other. They developed some sophisticated mathematical formulas that allowed them to quantitate the degree of complexity and information in any system such as the brain fairly precisely. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/smith43.html MATHEMATICS OR PHILOSOPHY OR SCIENCE? - Collins/Benjamin Debate Continued - ELLIOT BENJAMIN In my previous Integral World article The Art Form of Mathematics [1], my intent was to offer my perspective on the legitimacy and aesthetic value of pure mathematics and number theory in its own right, in response to the recent series of Integral World articles by Peter Collins, under the generic title Dynamic Nature of the Number System [2]. In Peter's reply to my "Art Form of Mathematics" response article [3], in which I very much appreciated his professional and respectful tone in spite of our enormous differences of perspective on this matter, it has struck me that what I believe is going on here is primarily a matter of where does one draw the line between mathematics and philosophy and science? Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/benjamin61.html To SUBSCRIBE to this Integral World Newsletter or change your email address, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/subscribe.php To UNSUBSCRIBE, update your account by logging in. For explanation, see: http://www.integralworld.net/nl_faq.html