INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 770 Amsterdam, May 11th, 2019 INTEGRAL ECONOMICS - BRYAN O'DOHERTY In my first essay on Integral Politics I stated that “politics is philosophy-in-action.” In a very similar way I would also propose that economics is psychology-in-action. Over the years my focus has been Integral Politics, and Panarchy as its operating system, but after a brief exchange with my brilliant friend, Dr. Joseph Dillard, I was compelled by him to “mine the coal” of this topic and discuss Integral Economics and in particular the importance of Praxeology to a correct and meaningful understanding of the science of economics. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/odoherty11.html THE VIRTUAL REALITY OF CONSCIOUSNESS - A Gnostic Insight - DAVID LANE This past week Matt Pagano, a bright student I first met at Mt. San Antonio College a couple of years back, asked me to give a presentation to the Philosophy Club at the University of California, Irvine, in the latter part of May. I readily accepted since it would give me the opportunity of putting the final touches on a paper that has been bubbling forth in my brain for the past few months. It concerns the idea that the advent of virtual and augmented reality in the past four decades can serve as useful model and tool to better understand why human consciousness first evolved. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/lane160.html