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 as attractors [...]

DeepSurface
This equation plagues me with the simple way it gives the mind a window into a much larger perspective. Infinity is a concept, not a number, so it can only be “approached.” It is more accurate to say that you (or I) become infinitely small when compared to infinity. Here’s what the equation really looks [...]

Integral Options | May 31 2008
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Science Proves Nothing. A statement like this can get me some serious hate mail. But it’s not my statement, it’s from Gregory Bateson, in Mind and Nature (1980), the first of his basic presuppositions about reality (another famous one, quoting Korzybski, is that the map is not the territory).
In [...]

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Holistic Quantum Relativity (HQR) Google Group UK

This work-in-progress may be of interest to the distinguished ATCA and IntentBlog members, given our joint concentration on opportunities and threats arising from climate chaos; radical poverty; geo-politics, organised crime & extremism; advanced technologies — bio, info, nano, [...]

Authored by Purify Mind
"How do things appear to exist to us?" Thubten Chodron asks her audience while holding up a cracker. "Here is a cracker," she goes on, "It appears to us to be a real cracker. Anyone who walks in this room should be able to identify this as a cracker because there is [...]

Authored by Laura
Quantum Physics may seem complicated to understand. It is. The reason is not because of the math or science involved (even though that could be hard to grasp), it’s because of the unbelievable philosophical implications that arise out of understanding it. Niels Bohr, a renowned physicist and author of Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum [...]

Authored by Laura
Bear with us on the Chaos Theory article. It seems a bit technical upon first read, but it actually isn’t as difficult to grasp as it may seem initially. Give it a go!
Traditional Newtonian physics is often understood as deterministic, where physical matter operates within fixed and knowable laws, there is cause and [...]

Andy Clark & David J. Chalmers | December 6 2008Thanks to Integral Praxis for link
Department of Philosophy
Washington University
St. Louis, MO 63130
Department of Philosophy
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
andy@twinearth.wustl.edu
chalmers@arizona.edu
*[[Authors are listed in order of degree of belief in the central thesis.]]
[[Published in Analysis 58:10-23, 1998. Reprinted in (P. Grim, ed) The Philosopher's Annual, vol XXI, 1998.]]

1 Introduction
Where [...]

Authored by Tom Huston

Something unusual hit the world running this past
spring. Opening at art-house theaters across the western U.S.,
and winning every independent film festival award it was
nominated for, an effects-laden docudrama began stunning viewers
everywhere with its creative confluence of science and
spirituality—and subverting common notions of reality
along the way. “Once in a while a film comes [...]

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An interview with Amit Goswami

Before you read any further, stop and close your eyes for a moment. Now consider the following question: for the moment your eyes were closed, did the world still exist even though you weren’t conscious of it? How do you know? [...]