INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 851 Amsterdam, April 30th, 2020 FRUITLESS FRACTALS - Getting Lost in Recursive Patterns - FRANK VISSER This tendency to multiply explanatory principles beyond any reliable reason can be found in many areas. This often relates to the concept of "fractals", which was introduced by Benoit Mandelbrot in 1975. It is based on the Latin fractus, meaning "broken" or "fractured", and refers to a particular aspect: these fractal patterns retain the same form on whatever scale we observe them. Fractal patterns can be found widely in nature, ranging from the coast lines of England to the branches and twigs of a tree. These recursive patterns are fascinating, because they are "self-similar", however we zoom in or out. But they pose a threat when used beyond their proper domain. Seeing recurring patterns everywhere is a dicey game, as we will see in this essay. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/visser167.html EROS, OR SPIRIT-IN-ACTION, AND THE HOLOMOVEMENT - Whitehead, Wilber, and Bohm - JOE CORBETT The first thing that should be understood about the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead is that it was an attempt to create a metaphysics of reality appropriate to the scientific understandings of relativity and quantum theory. He sought to replace the Cartesian-Newtonian metaphysics of fixed and absolute space and time coordinates whereby objects like billiard balls interact, with a real-time (or phenomenological rather than abstract) moment to moment perspectival view of space-time in flux and flow, whereby subjects are in participatory relation. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/corbett72.html