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Newsletter Nr. 1.473
Amsterdam, December 14, 2025


Evolution and Integral Theory: Metaphor, Mechanism, or Metaphysics?, The Symposium That Never Happened -  Frank Visser / ChatGPT

Moderator: Ken, are you making empirical claims about biological evolution?

Ken Wilber: No. I am not doing biology. I am doing meta-theory. I accept the findings of evolutionary science, but I argue that they describe only the exterior dimensions of reality. Evolution also has interior dimensions—value, meaning, depth. Eros names that dimension.

Frank Visser: But Ken, you have repeatedly criticized neo-Darwinism for being insufficient. In Sex, Ecology, Spirituality you say it cannot explain the emergence of depth and consciousness. That is not neutral interpretation; it is a claim of explanatory failure.

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Children of the Night in a Dark Universe - How Light and Darkness Shape Human Biology and Psychology - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

From a cosmic perspective, light is a rarity. The universe is overwhelmingly dark, punctuated only by islands of stellar illumination separated by vast, light-less expanses. Even on Earth, daylight is a brief daily interval, carved out by planetary rotation, while darkness reigns before and after. Yet human civilization has inverted this cosmic ratio. We live by day, work under artificial illumination, and increasingly push the night aside as a mere inconvenience. This reversal obscures a deeper evolutionary truth: biologically and psychologically, we are not merely creatures of light, but descendants of darkness.

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