INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 676 Amsterdam, September 15th, 2017 A TRANS-DARWINIAN WORLD-VIEW - JOE CORBETT Trans-Darwinism accepts the premises of Darwinism but goes beyond the mechanistic explanations of blind chance to explain not just the evolution of biological life-forms but the universe as a whole. It sees the universe as an intelligent and living whole rather than as an inert lump of matter waiting to hit the lottery of incredible odds, over and over and over again. In short, trans-Darwinism is about the re-enchantment of the Kosmos, not in magical fantasy, but in a scientifically based panpsychism that restores wholeness and organicism to the universe, which has a meaning, purpose, and direction to it that can only be described as, “AWAKE!”. It is important from a trans-Darwinian perspective that terms like Eros, Agape, and Spirit only be used as heuristics, and not as substitutes for understanding the complex material processes underlying them that they are intended to signify. There is a tendency for such terms to become fetishized idols that operate as god-like substitutes for real and empirically explainable material realities. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/corbett46.html