INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 787 Amsterdam, July 23rd, 2019 DOES EVERY OUTSIDE HAVE AN INSIDE? - Ken Wilber's Strained Relationship to Science - FRANK VISSER Abraham Maslow said in 1966, "I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail." This has become known as the Law of the instrument, otherwise known as the law of the hammer, Maslow's hammer (or gavel), or the golden hammer. It is a cognitive bias that involves an over-reliance on a familiar tool. When integral students observe a phenomenon, they tend to place it in their familiar AQAL model, distinguishing outside from inside, and individual from collective. The AQAL model works very well when applied to us humans and our manifold activities. After all, we do have an outside and an inside (even though the ontological status of that inside is contested), and we are both individual and social beings. But does that generalize to the cosmos at large? Not so easily. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/visser144.html MATERIALIST DELUSIONS AND INTEGRAL EVOLUTION - JOE CORBETT A typical argument from a materialist on evolution says that molecules randomly slosh around and combine along energy gradients that are then selected by trial and error as functionally fit within a larger system of molecules within and between cells, such that the exquisite coordination and self-organization of complex living systems is, given enough time, entirely explainable by these (exterior) physical means. They believe that because molecular biology can sometimes make the mechanical linkage between molecule A and molecule B and their physical consequences, they have “explained” what is happening, when in fact they have merely described a mechanics that in no way substantively explains how it came to be a functional mechanism, without having to take a leap of faith into astronomical statistical improbabilities. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/corbett66.html