INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 708 Amsterdam, April 16th, 2018 THE LANGUAGE OF DEVELOPMENT - How Societies Create Minds - ANDY SMITH I recently posted a critique of Tyler Volk's book Quarks to Culture, in which I discussed some aspects of my own holarchical view of existence. In an email, Frank Visser responded with a question: “Being a brainwashed Wilberian, even if a reformed one, I have always had trouble getting your view on interiority. Instead of seeing it as a separate, parallel reality to the exterior world you present it as the result of “looking up” to higher levels, or to society as an upcoming level. But where do you place the sequence of developmental stages from sensory to post-formal and beyond in your one-scale model?” My brief answer to Frank at the time was that I haven't identified most of these developmental stages in my one scale model (Table 1) because I see them as occurring at a finer grain of detail than the model in general is concerned with. In my view, there are five social stages in every level of existence, and in the cultural level, where humans reside, just the two highest stages represent human societies. The fourth stage corresponds closely to the sensorimotor stage in human development, the first stage in Piaget's most basic scheme, while the fifth stage includes all the subsequent stages (preoperational; concrete operational; formal operational). Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/smith57.html