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Newsletter Nr. 1.398
Amsterdam, August 26, 2025


Towards a Minimal Metaphysics? - Explorations with my Little Local Language Model - B. May / Qwen3-30B

A truly minimal metaphysics might not be a set of positive claims, but a negation of unnecessary commitments—a kind of metaphysical minimalism akin to Wittgenstein's "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent," or Heidegger's "Being is not a being."

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https://www.integralworld.net/may8.html


Order, Disorder, and the Fate of the Universe  Bloom, Wilber, and Science on the Second Law - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

The Second Law of Thermodynamics—stating that in a closed system, entropy (disorder) tends to increase—is one of the most robust principles in physics. Yet, it has inspired philosophical, metaphysical, and even mystical interpretations. 

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https://www.integralworld.net/visser560.html


Why the Axiom "All the Way Down" is not Physical Reductionism - Notes on a pan-psychist dual aspect monism - Joe Corbett

One criticism that keeps arising regarding my essays on Kosmic Dynamics is that I'm reducing the interior quadrants to physical quadrants, so that in effect what I'm doing is an URQ analysis of the AQAL. Thus it is necessary for me to briefly clarify why this is not the case.

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https://www.integralworld.net/corbett121.html