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Newsletter Nr. 1.440
Amsterdam, November 6, 2025


Ken Wilber: The Last Grand Synthesizer? - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

Ken Wilber's work stands as one of the most ambitious attempts of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries to provide a unified map of human knowledge and experience. His project—known as Integral Theory—aimed to weave together the many fragmented strands of modern intellectual and spiritual life into a coherent whole. 
Whether one regards it as visionary or overreaching, Wilber's oeuvre holds a distinctive place in the intellectual history of our time: it represents the last major effort to construct a grand synthesis before the age of postmodern pluralism and digital hyperfragmentation fully took hold.

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Debunking Bernardo Kastrups Philosophy In A Nutshel - Is Analytic Idealism Really Parsimonious - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

Kastrup often claims that analytic idealism is the most parsimonious ontology possible, because it posits only one kind of existent: consciousness (experience itself). All else—matter, brains, space-time—are appearances within consciousness. At first glance, this looks like a triumph of Ockham's Razor. But when you look closely, the simplicity becomes deceptive—perhaps too simple to explain complexity without smuggling it back in.

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https://www.integralworld.net/visser639.html