Van: "Integral World" Aan: Onderwerp: ISIS and (non)violence Datum: zondag 25 januari 2015 18:05 INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 546 Amsterdam, January 25th, 2015 NTEGRAL VIOLENCE/NON-VIOLENCE AND THE THREAT OF ISIS - ELLIOT BENJAMIN About 2 years ago I engaged in a series of back and forth essays with Joe Corbett and Brian O'Doherty about the use of violence to achieve social/political goals, that was spurred on by Corbett's essay An Integral Use of Violence for Social Transformation. Although I still abhor the use of violence in the way Corbett proposed, involving targeted assassinations of wealthy billionaire bankers and industrialists, etc., and I appreciate O'Doherty's argument about the “means justifying the ends”, I must admit that I have become increasingly conflicted about the alternatives of violence vs. non-violence in response to the horrid actions of ISIS. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/benjamin71.html DIGITAL EXISTENTIALISM - IN THE FUTURE U.R.A.I. - DAVID LANE The acquisition of knowledge is defined, limited, and measured by distance. Yet what happens when there is no lag time between what we desire to know and what is known? We are already witnessing the exponential acceleration of technological evolution to such a degree that in a few decades we will become the very A.I Nick Bostrom, Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking fear but not in the exact form they predict. No, it isn’t a superintelligence apart from ourselves that will transcend us in a Kurzweil like singularity, but rather that we will become the very network itself. The next stage is already upon us and its initials are A.I., but it stands for augmenting intelligence. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/lane84.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