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Newsletter Nr. 1.466
Amsterdam, December 6, 2025

Eros, Creativity, and the Zero-Value Explanation - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

To their admirers, these ideas rescue evolution from being “mere chance,” transforming it into a meaningful, directional unfolding. But if one steps back from the rhetorical flourish, the explanatory power of these metaphysical posits is strikingly similar to that of theistic evolution—or even young-earth creationism. In all three cases, the explanatory value, in strictly scientific terms, is effectively zero.

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https://www.integralworld.net/visser704.html?4


Selfless-Organization: Why “Self-Organization” Misleads More Than It Explains - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

The term self-organization is widely used across science to describe the spontaneous emergence of order without external design. But the term is also misleading. As soon as we examine it carefully, we find that neither part of the phrase truly fits: nothing organizes itself, and there is no identifiable self involved. 

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https://www.integralworld.net/visser703.html?4

Relational Emergence: From Cosmic Patterns to Inner Evolution From Cosmic Patterns to Inner Evolution - The Dreaming Kosmos, Chapter 13 - Joseph Dillard

To their admirers, these ideas rescue evolution from being “mere chance,” transforming it into a meaningful, directional unfolding. But if one steps back from the rhetorical flourish, the explanatory power of these metaphysical posits is strikingly similar to that of theistic evolution—or even young-earth creationism. In all three cases, the explanatory value, in strictly scientific terms, is effectively zero.

Read more:
https://www.integralworld.net/dillard163.html?4