INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 748 Amsterdam, December 22th, 2018 DEMYSTIFYING EMERGENCE - A Comparison of Harold Morowitz and Ken Wilber - FRANK VISSER Cosmic history started off with the simplest of all elements, Hydrogen, and then after a few billion years we got human beings. That is quite a story and many philosophers have pondered how that could possibly have happened. It is tempting, for some, to invoke a transcendental purpose behind this grand process, simply because it seems to baffle the mind to understand how tiny Hydrogen atoms could have lead to something so complex as a human brain. Ken Wilber belongs to that category, for he has often—mostly in verbal online communications—stated that this stupendous development cannot have happened "by chance alone". Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/visser132.html ZOMBIE DATING - Are Brain States Equal to Mental States? - A reflection on the Hard Problem of Consciousness - DAVID LANE Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/lane153.html WHAT GOOD IS CONSCIOUSNESS, ANYWAY? - A Brief Reply to David Lane and Steve Taylor - ANDY SMITH Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/smith59.html