Van: "Integral World" Aan: Onderwerp: Julian Jaynes Datum: donderdag 22 augustus 2013 8:21 INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 464 Amsterdam, August 22th, 2013 THE ORIGIN OF CONSCIOUSNESS - Wallace in the Light of Jaynes - ELLIOT BENJAMIN A few months ago, David Lane and I engaged in a handful of back and forth Integral World essays that got spurred on by David's essay Explaining Evolution in Four Minutes. The crux of our exchange was focused upon the metaphysical outlook of the relatively unacknowledged evolution co-founder Alfred Russel Wallace. I argued that Wallace was a bona fide spiritualist, believed wholeheartedly in the claimed phenomenon of life after death through the communications of mediums, postulated a “metaphysical” explanation of how the universe was formulated, and consequently I took exception to David's inclusion of Wallace in his phrase: "Darwin and Wallace's great discovery was that rich complications can arise naturally without any intelligent guidance whatsoever." Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/benjamin55.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