Just a quick note to say that Chris Weigel has an exciting new paper forthcoming on psychological distance and intuitions about free will. (For a brief summary, see this post.)
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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 Leadership in Action conference [ Read More ]
Categories: Evolutionary spirituality, Sex & Spirituality
Suppose you knew you were going to be reborn after you died, and you could choose the time and place of your next birth—any time in human history up to the present day. Would you like to be born in the 21st century, or during some earlier period? Current societies are more complex and technologically [ Read More ]
Categories: AQAL & SDi, Evolutionary spirituality
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 are a part of), [ Read More ]
Categories: Psychology
Michael Lamport Commons, Sara Nora Ross, and Jonas Gensaku Miller The first Beyond Formal Operations Symposium was held at Harvard in 1981. The resulting text Beyond Formal Operations (Commons, Richards, & Armon, 1984) was published by Praeger. There have been many subsequent publications on the subject. Occasionally people suggest that the postformal stages posited by [ Read More ]
Categories: AQAL & SDi, Evolutionary spirituality
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 goodness actually serve [ Read More ]
Categories: Science & Spirituality
By H.B. Augustine A Proposed Solution and Expansion To the Platonic Explanation Of So-Called Universals In this essay, I will consider the problem of universals and its major interpretations. I will proceed to see which interpretation is the case, and – because it is Plato’s theory – I will offer an alternative way of explaining [ Read More ]
Categories: AQAL & SDi
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 than trying to change our environment. We [ Read More ]
Categories: Social Collective
Merlin Donald Origins of the Modern Mind (1991) was an attempt to synthesize various sources of information–neurobiological, psychological, archeological and anthropological, among others–about our cognitive origins, in the belief that the human mind co-evolved in close interaction with both brain and culture… This precis focuses on my core theory and disregards most of the background [ Read More ]
Categories: Social Collective
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 so long as the relevant [ Read More ]
Categories: Social Collective
