Elizabeth Debold Quick: “masculine”–take ten seconds and say the words that come to mind that describe masculine. Next, do the same with “feminine.” That was the first exercise that my friend and colleague Cindy Wigglesworth and I asked participants to do in the breakout session that we led at the Integral ...

Art Markman, PhD @ Psychology Today There is a lot of evidence that people are overconfident in many judgments about themselves. If you ask a group of people how talented they are at some skill relative to the population as a whole (or even relative to a specific group that they ...

Steve McIntosh Introduction This is a presentation about how the values known as the beautiful, the true, and the good play a central role in the evolution of the universe. We'll be considering this ancient and venerable triad of values from the perspective of integral philosophy to see how beauty, truth, and ...

Dave Pollard of Salon Natural and social systems are complex -- that is, not entirely knowable, unpredictable, resistant to cause-and-effect analysis, in a word, mysterious. For our first three million years on Earth we humans, like every other species on the planet, accepted that mystery. We adapted rather ...

Ben Fitzhugh of the University of Washington Introduction "The decision to reject one paradigm is always simultaneously the decision to accept another, and the judgement leading to that decision involves the comparison of both paradigms with nature and with each other." (Kuhn 1970:77) "Normal science can proceed without rules only ...