INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 852 Amsterdam, May 2nd, 2020 DAVID SLOAN WILSON ON KEN WILBER - Together For a Better World? - FRANK VISSER In June 2019 Ken Wilber had a conversation in a podcast on IntegralLife with David Sloan Wilson, a professional biologist known for his support for the theory of group selection or multi-level selection. This is remarkable, given Wilber's scant understanding of evolutionary biology, as I have documented on this website in multiple essays. To my knowledge it is the first time (except perhaps for his conversation with Rupert Sheldrake on Integral Naked) that Wilber engaged with a professional biologist, so I was keen to hear how this would work out. I felt disappointment for most of the discussion centered around the value of the four quadrant model and you can leave it to Wilber to explain this to his guests in great and lengthy detail. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/visser168.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