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Newsletter Nr. 1.431
Amsterdam, Oktober 20, 2025


Ken Wilber and the Persistence of Metaphysical Language - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

Ken Wilber has long presented himself as a philosopher of integration—one who seeks to reconcile the insights of science, psychology, and spirituality within a single coherent framework. Yet even as he champions a “post-metaphysical” approach, his writing remains saturated with metaphysical vocabulary. Terms like “Spirit,” “Eros,” and “the Ground of Being” appear not as metaphors for human experience, but as cosmic principles governing existence itself. The paradox is striking: Wilber's system claims to transcend metaphysics, yet it continually reintroduces it through the back door.

https://www.integralworld.net/visser620.html


The Ongoing Enigma of Consciousness - Are We Back To Square One? - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

Few philosophical questions have proved as enduring and elusive as the nature of consciousness. Whether framed as the “hard problem” of subjective experience or as the metaphysical riddle of mind and matter, this issue has outlived centuries of speculation.
Each major position—materialism, dualism, and the various forms of monism—has had its moments of triumph and its own crises of coherence.

https://www.integralworld.net/visser621.html


Donald Hoffman's Leap from Perception to Idealism - Why evolutionary illusionism doesn't justify a cosmic mind - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

Donald Hoffman has become something of a celebrity philosopher by arguing that everything we see around us—space, time, and physical objects—are not the real world, but icons in a perceptual interface evolved for survival. His Interface Theory of Perception (ITP) claims that evolution shaped our senses not to reveal the truth, but to guide adaptive behavior. Just as we don't think of a computer icon as a literal file, we shouldn't think of physical objects as the literal building blocks of reality.

https://www.integralworld.net/visser622.html