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Newsletter Nr. 1.081
Amsterdam, July 3, 2023


‘A UNIFYING THEORY OF REALITY’- Review of Bobby Azarian's "The Romance of Reality" - FRANK VISSER

It is interesting to see that Azarian sees his model not as antagonistic to Darwinism (like Wilber frequently frames it), but rather thinks that "it explains the intellectual revolution started by Darwin by explaining the mechanisms of progressive change in the universe on all scales and for all times—past, present, and future—as a result of blind variation and natural selection." (p. 120). Precisely the explanatory principles Wilber tends to ridicule. For example, Wilber's once remarked that "the modern theory of evolution is catastrophically incomplete!"—without pointing out in what sense this is the case, let alone suggesting new explanatory models.[15] Where Wilber gets hysterical when this topic is raised, Azarian admirably deals with the theoretical issues involved. He even sees the major extinctions life has encountered with Popper's principle ("Problems create progress"), for life has always bounced back from these disasters. And he rightly sides with Dawkins over Gould when it comes to defending the notion of evolutionary progress.

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