From: Integral World Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2011 9:03 PM To: Frank Visser Subject: Ockham's Razor INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 371 Amsterdam, September 25th, 2011 SHAVING SCIENCE WITH OCKHAM'S RAZOR - What, if anything, does science tell us about reality? - DON SALMON Jan (my wife) and I are preparing a series of videos investigating the question of what it is we really know (scientifically) about the nature of the real world. The major themes we explore in the videos are fleshed out more fully in first five chapters of our book, Yoga Psychology and the Transformation of Consciousness: Seeing Through the Eyes of Infinity. In those chapters, we look at a variety of scientific findings and suggest that those findings, in themselves, give us no more reason to assert that the nature of the "real" world is non-conscious, than to say that it's conscious Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/salmon3.html A RESPONSE TO "DESULTORY DECUSSATION" - M.A. ROSE In "Desultory Decussation: Where Littlewood's Law of Miracles meets Jung's Synchronicity", David Lane and Andrea Diem Lane responded to Elliot Benjamin's essay on synchronicity ["License Plate Synchronicity"] with an amused and dismissive air, opining that "even the most apparently miraculous of synchronicities may have a mathematical basis." Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/rose1.html VOODOO VOODO - And Two More Waves - KELLY & DAVID LANE Thus, the real thrust of our critique didn't need to invoke Littlewood's Law of Miracles at all, since as we wrote at the time “A close analysis of the first four license plate synchronicities that Elliot Benjamin provides tells us more about his own predilections than it does about some transmundane occurrence. Ironically, the mathematics that he invokes to objectively substantiate the improbability of his encounters are, in fact, a complete ruse. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/lane25.html If you know other people interested in this Integral World Newsletter, please forward this mail to them. Thanks. 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