INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 613 Amsterdam, April 11th, 2016 "SCIENCE HAS NO ANSWER" - Ken Wilber's Mistaken Strategy of Belittling Science - FRANK VISSER Does it matter what Ken Wilber thinks about tadpoles and their regenerative powers, or embryos growing two heads or tails? It does, for these examples taken from science serve only one function to his audience: to support their conviction that he is not only at home in the field of spirituality (which he definitely is, as Integral Meditation amply shows), but that his spiritual vision is also grounded in the nitty-gritty dealings of science. Again and again he has proven that this is not the case. Science has painstakingly unraveled many pieces of this puzzle and continues to do this to this very day. Wilber has no right to gloss over these efforts to bolster his own spiritual ideology by throwing around a handful of catchy but misleading examples. That's the surest way to ruin integral theory's reputation. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/visser94.html THE NEURAL BASIS OF MORALITY - A deeper look at Braintrust By Patricia Churchland - ANDREA DIEM- LANE In the opening material of the book, Churchland addresses that some are uncomfortable connecting the insights of science with morality, extrapolating David Hume's is-ought distinction (that an “is” does not imply an “ought”) to mean that science should stay out of moral concerns and not venture into “scientism.” Yet, Churchland rejects this interpretation and contends that it actually misrepresents Hume's position. She explains: “That you cannot derive an “ought” from an “is” has very little bearing so far as the in-the-world problem solving is concerned.” Instead, much like E.O. Wilson's consilience concept where the disciplines build upon each other, she suggests that science along with all of the humanities develop a scaffolding of knowledge to better grasp the subject at hand. In terms of ethics, we will have a much fuller understanding of it when we embrace the insights of the many disciplines, science definitely included. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/diem-lane26.html