INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 857 Amsterdam, May 18th, 2020 THE CORONA CONSPIRACY - Part 3: We Need to Talk about Exosomes - FRANK VISSER COVID-19 can lead to terrible complications, including not only the lungs, but the heart, blood vessels, digestive tract, kidneys, brain and even the central nervous system.[6] This is due to the receptor it uses and which exists in many parts of the body. Rembember the US doctor that told us in a widely distributed video that "it's not pneumonia, it is something else!". Conspirationists saw this as "evidence" that we are not being told the whole story—their bottom line conviction—but science just investigates further to find facts about how SARS-CoV-2 actually ravages our health. Those who think that the many people who have been reported to have died from this disease actually died from secondary illnesses again might be wrong: SARS-CoV-2 attacks exactly these weakened systems in the body to kill the patient. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/visser170.html DAVID LONG'S ANTI-IDEALIST ARGUMENTS ARE WEAK - RASMUS ENBOM I’m of the impression that within integral communities the question of ontological primacy and the related question of the relationship between mind and matter are questions of major controversy and has been a central topic of debate for a relatively long time. In this post I’ll address the arguments youtuber David Long has provided who’s firmly on the Emergentist side of things, and critiques an Idealist world view and ontology, and does this with a mile high of pseudologic. You might have seen it deployed. ‘there’s a long history of the universe before life evolved on the planet’ ‘there’s no or insufficient evidence for Idealism’, ‘there’s correlation between functions and equipment’, etc. What we’re seeing here is a common and dense cluster of pathetically weak argumentation, presumably driven by paradigmatic thinking and subject object experiential dualism, and are in dire need of shattering. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/enbom1.html