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Newsletter Nr. 1.434
Amsterdam, Oktober 24, 2025


Synchronicity As the Last Defense of Astrology, Why Even Archetypal Astrology Cannot Be Made to Work - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

For centuries, astrology has been pronounced dead by science—yet it never quite dies. Disproved on every physical, logical, and statistical ground, it keeps reappearing in more sophisticated guises. The latest incarnation is archetypal astrology, inspired by Jung and developed most eloquently by cultural historian Richard Tarnas, author of Cosmos and Psyche.

https://www.integralworld.net/visser625.html

AI as Symbiont or Parasite? - Continuing Visser's and Dillard's Explorations of AI - B. May / Gemini

Gemini Pro 2.5 and I continue to explore AI in from a few non-IT perspectives, including looking at AI through the lenses of Derrida and Nietzsche as well as the lenses of parasitosis, symbiosis and evolution. It's all a bit sobering, if AI is truly an emergent reality we cannot stop.

https://www.integralworld.net/may10.html


Does Wilber Merely Restate the Mind-Body Problem? - Frank Visser / Grok

The mind-body problem—how subjective consciousness emerges from or interacts with physical processes—has long perplexed philosophers and scientists. In A Landscape of Consciousness: Toward a Taxonomy of Explanations and Implications, Robert Lawrence Kuhn maps over 200 theories addressing this enigma, reframing it as a multidimensional “landscape of consciousness.”

https://www.integralworld.net/visser625.html