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Newsletter Nr. 738
Amsterdam, October 22th, 2018


Since Ken Wilber keeps bringing up the topic of Whitehead's philosophy in various recent video presentations, I keep commenting on it. I am sure I am boring to death most integralists who see Integral Theory as a path to greater happiness. I am writing for those who think intellectual integrity means something as well. In a recent members-only Integral Life video called "Is Free Will an Illusion?" (October 16, 2018), Wilber states the following, regarding Whitehead's conception of the origin of novelty:

"And this is Whitehead's astonishing addition to that enfolding, and that is that after the present moment, the present subject has prehended the past, it also adds its own little bit of creativity, its own little bit of novelty. And that's what's so central. And Whitehead arrived at this, not by looking at the Second Law of Thermodynamics, because that ends up as being to be an extremely limited version of what the universe will do, under certain circumstances. The universe also does many different things (…)

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