INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 723 Amsterdam, July 18th, 2018 ON BEATING A DEAD HORSE - The Scientific Challenge to Ken Wilber and Why it Matters - FRANK VISSER AND DAVID LANE No subject has been discussed more widely on Integral World over the past two decades, at least by the two of us, than that of biological evolution. Why would that be the case? Isn't Ken Wilber primarily a spiritual philosopher who claims to have detailed knowledge of the developmental stages and states of human consciousness and culture? The reason is that from his very first publication The Spectrum of Consciousness in 1977 to his latest volume The Religion of Tomorrow (2018) Ken Wilber has tied these areas to the question of evolution, as seen from a spiritual perspective. To make the case for this spiritual view of evolution he has, rather infrequently, but consistently, referred to the evolutionary "failures" of science. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/visser121.html CONSIDERATION ON THE UPPER-LEFT QUADRANT OF WILBER'S FOUR QUADRANTS THEORY - The Thoughts of David J. Chalmers, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Ken Wilber - MITSURU MASUDA When someone acts, there seems to have been some kinds of his/her interior state which caused the action. For example, when someone eats a banana, it seems that his/her hunger, or wish of quickly finishing a meal, or an idea of banana's having good nutrition, or some kinds of such things have caused or motivated that action. Such hunger, or wish, or idea seem to have been his/her interior state, which others can't see, although others can see the action itself. I think most people would agree that their behaviors in general are causally connected to their interior state. In this essay, I would like to consider such an interior of a person and examine the thoughts of David J. Chalmers, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ken Wilber. Especially around the upper-left quadrant of Wilber's four quadrants theory. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/masuda1.html