Van: "Integral World" Aan: Onderwerp: Wilber Tribute Datum: zondag 24 november 2013 16:02 INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 475 Amsterdam, November 24th, 2013 MY TRIBUTE TO KEN WILBER - Anatomy of a Love-Hate Relationship - FRANK VISSER I recently watched the A Tribute to Ken Wilber video, mailed to Premium Members of Integral Life, which was compiled during the last (December 2012) WhatNext conference in Boulder. (See here the announcement of this event by Wilber, where he humorously remarks that it will be embarrassing for him to be the object of so much praise.) A host of current and former close friends and colleagues of Wilber expressed their deep admiration, devotion, and yes, most often their love for him as their teacher, mentor, ex-husband or... guru, illustrating all this with a sprinkle of anecdotes. If there was ever any doubt that Wilber serves as a guru figure for many of his readers, this event nailed it. Most express their admiration in terms of "I became a better person because of you" or "I instantly knew this is what I wanted to do for the rest of my life" or "your ideas have illuminated everything for me". Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/visser60.html A KEY TO ALL METHODOLOGIES - Communion, Conflict, and Commodity in Ken Wilber's Rhetoric of DIY Science - DANIEL GUSTAV ANDERSON This paper concerns neoliberalism, summarized by John Frow (1999) as “the nexus of a libertarian economics, an anti-statist politics, and a psychology of interest-governed behavior, which together provide […] a 'unified framework for understanding all human behavior'” (425). All possible cultural, cognitive, or political choices are expressible through commodity choices, and therefore, any of many alternatives can be considered as equally plausible to the next in the delirium of the marketplace: evolution or creationism, critical history or reactionary propaganda passing as knowledge, as “real” history. I take this question of plausibility to be a matter of public concern, and a suitable object for critique in the context of rhetoric: How can one achieve a public good in convincing others that something is so or not so by means of reason and evidence in good faith, given that plausibility and desirability have become conflated under neoliberalism? Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/anderson12.html THE SYNTHETIC SELF - Unlocking the Genomics of Consciousness Or How Information Theory is Transforming Science - DAVID LANE AND ANDREA DIEM-LANE Arguably the key question that begs to be answered in our quest to understand consciousness is whether our self-reflective awareness can be algorithmically understood in terms of information theory (and thus is potentially substrate neutral) or, is, as Sir Roger Penrose has long argued, the result of quantum biological processes which cannot in principle be computationally reduced.... It was not so long ago that many people, including some very eminent scientists (such as Henri Bergson), believed that the secrets of genetics would never be revealed by biochemistry because there was something inherently non-reducible in life’s coding system, something akin to supernatural vitalism. But this turned out to be spectacularly wrong when Francis Crick and James Watson discovered the double helix structure to DNA and how four basic building blocks, adenine, cytosine, thymine and guanine comprise the fundamental language in life’s evolution. It is the reconfiguration of these letters (as base pairs A T and C G) which make up our genotypes and which in turn determine the elementary differences between a dolphin, a human, and a grain of rice. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/lane63.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