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Newsletter Nr. 829
Amsterdam, January 30th, 2020



"IT IS PART OF THIS MIRACLE OF EMERGENCE" - Ken Wilber Argues for his Mysterianism - FRANK VISSER

In the latest episode of the Ken Show, featured on Integral Life by Corey de Vos[1], the members-only Part III is devoted to the topic of "Perspectives, Involution and Evolution". Since we are offering a running commentary to each and every statement made by Wilber on evolution, we will respond briefly to this installment—though Wilber just repeats his worn-out "argument" for a mysterious force in the universe that produces everything under the sun, from atoms and molecules to human beings.
Since this series is about the four quadrants, Wilber emphasizes that we cannot understand evolution without including the collective dimension. As he frequently phrases this: "there is never an individual without a collective" or "there is never a first individual." Now, it is not much of a revelation for biologists that evolution is a collective affair, the field of population genetics tells as much. It is populations that evolve, not individuals.

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