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100 Incredible Lectures from the World’s Top ScientistsBy Sarah RusselUnless you’re enrolled at a top university or are an elite member of the science and engineering inner circle, you’re probably left out of most of the exciting research explored by the world’s greatest scientists. But thanks to the Internet, and our list of 100 incredible lectures, you’ve now got access to the cutting edge

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Deleuze’s Encounter With WhiteheadBy Steven ShaviroIn a short chapter of The Fold (1993) that constitutes his only extended discussion of Alfred North Whitehead, Gilles Deleuze praises Whitehead for asking the question, “What Is an Event?” (76). Whitehead’s Process and Reality (1929/1978) marks only the third time – after the Stoics and Leibniz – that events move to the center of philosophical

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Tunnel Vision: A Review of Pinker’s Blank SlateBy Thomas Hylland EriksenThe gap between sociocultural anthropology and biological/physical anthropology is deep, but fairly recent. In the 1870s, Tylor enjoyed a fruitful relationship with the Darwinists; he was inspired by, and in turn inspired, Darwin himself. Later generations also engaged in respectful dialogue until, roughly, the end of the

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The Central Role of Culture in Cognitive Evolution: A Reflection on the Myth of the "Isolated Mind"By Merlin DonaldHuman symbolic culture constitutes a distinctive, species-universal trait, usually thought to be the result of our having evolved special cognitive capacities, such as language. Seen from this vantage point, the flow of influence runs from cognition to culture, in that order, and

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Where did we come from? What makes us human? An explosion of recent discoveries sheds light on these questions, and NOVA's three-part T.V special, Becoming Human, examines what the latest scientific research reveals about our hominid relatives.Becoming Human Part 1First Steps: 6 million years ago, what set our ancestors on the path from ape to human? Tuesday, November 3 at 8 pm (Check local

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From the United Nations: Impacts of Climate Change Coming Faster and Sooner: New Science Report Underlines Urgency for Governments to Seal the Deal in CopenhagenSeptember 24, 2009 -The pace and scale of climate change may now be outstripping even the most sobering predictions of the last report of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC).An analysis of the very latest, peer-reviewed

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God, ApproximatelyBy Brian Cantwell SmithConsider the rise of the religious right: Muslim and Hindu fundamentalism, right-wing Zionism, the Christian moral majority. These movements are responding to—and exploiting—a widespread social hunger: a sense that reigning secular, scientific, and capitalist world views don’t supply what matters: ways to tell right from wrong, guidance to anchor

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Cognitive Levels of Evolution: From Pre-rational to Meta-rationalBy Francis HeylighenThe principle of natural selection is taken as a starting point for an analysis of evolutionary levels. Knowledge and values are conceived as vicarious selectors of actions from a repertoire. The concept of metasystem transition is derived from the law of requisite variety and the principle of hierarchy. It is

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Daniel Gustav Anderson is a cultural critic and integral theorist currently teaching literature and cultural history in Washington D.C.Anderson has called for the development of a "critical Integral theory," which he conceives as a theory capable of doing Integral work while holding up to a rigorous ideological analysis. He has mapped this position in his essay, "Of Syntheses and Surprises:

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Integral Evolution: An Interview with David LoyeBy Russ VolckmannDavid Loye is one of those people that the longer you get to know them the more you begin to discover a bit of their depth and breadth of perspective and creativity in the world. His publications speak for themselves. His network with leading scientists and thinkers around the world is equally impressive.Actually, my first contact

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Deleuze and the Open-ended Becoming of the Worldby Manuel DeLandaWith the final mathematization of classical physics in the nineteenth century, a certain picture of the world emerged dominant, one in which clockwork determinism reigned supreme and time played no creative role, so that the future was effectively closed, completely given in the past. Although the set of equations with which

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From WorldChanging Team: Crackdown against 'environmental criminals' follows Greenpeace reportSlaughtering the Amazon from Greenpeace UK on Vimeo. Some of the world's top footwear brands, including Clarks, Adidas, Nike and Timberland, have demanded an immediate moratorium on destruction of the Amazon rainforest from their leather suppliers in Brazil.The move is the first major development since

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The Ways We Are in This Together: Intersubjectivity and Interobjectivity in the Holonic Kosmosby Ken WilberIn "An Integral Age at the Leading Edge", we summarized the evidence suggesting that a cultural elite, representing less that 2% of the adult population, was entering psychosocial waves of development that could best be described as integral, and that this 2% might very well be the harbinger

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Toward an Integral Media Criticismby Rebecca BailinWhen did I walk away from away from that doctoral program? 1981? I was three courses and a dissertation away from a UCLA PhD in Theory, History and Criticism of film and TV. A doctoral dissertation away, however, can not be considered close. A friend likened writing a dissertation to having a low grade fever for several years. You’re never

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Humanity, Forest Ecology, and the Future in a British Columbia Valley: A Case Studyby Stephan Martineau.“One of the most important and challenging issues facing humanity in the 21st century is the increasingly complex human-ecology interface”, says Stephan Martineau.In this article, Stephan suggests the potential that integral mediation and integral ecology hold in addressing this interface.

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From New Scientist: Evolution's Third Replicator: Genes, Memes, and Now What?by Susan BlackmoreWE HUMANS have let loose something extraordinary on our planet - a third replicator - the consequences of which are unpredictable and possibly dangerous.What do I mean by "third replicator"? The first replicator was the gene - the basis of biological evolution. The second was memes - the basis of

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Below information designer Tom Wujec talks for just over six minutes about three areas of the brain that help us understand words, images, feelings, connections. Wujec asks: How can we best engage our brains to help us better understand big ideas?

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God, Strings, Emergence, and the Future of the WorldBy Nicola Hoggard CreeganThis paper is a part of a larger project in which I argue that a reconnection with nature, and a reconceptualization of nature, are necessary accompaniments to a well developed sensus divinitatis. Schleiermacher talks about faith being neither a knowing nor a doing but a kind of feeling, a sense of absolute dependence,

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From Pacific Integral: Collective Individualism: Experiments in Second Tier Communityby Terri O'Fallon, Venita Ramirez, Jesse McKay and Kari MaysThis paper describes an ongoing experiment in fostering development through an integrally informed educational program, called Generating Transformative Change in Human Systems (GTC). This program forms the structure for second-tier communities whose aim

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From Integral Life: var so1 = new SWFObject('/sites/all/modules/s3_asset/lib/Player.swf', 'swf_Player_1', '750', '442', '7', '#FFFFFF'); so1.addParam('type', 'movie'); so1.addParam('quality', 'high'); so1.addParam('allowfullscreen', 'true'); so1.addParam('allowscriptaccess', 'always'); so1.addVariable('class', 'flash'); so1.addVariable('file', 'http://integrallife.com/media/48535/47929/

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Introducing The AQAL Cube Perspectives: Transcending and including the AQAL SquareBy Lexi Neale“Introducing The AQAL Cube” addresses persisting “flat-land” and reductionism issues with Ken Wilber’s AQAL Square, where “two dimensional” interpretations of “three dimensional” processes have left us with many anomalies that may possibly be corrected by the AQAL Cube. First, the AQAL Cube

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Introducing the Integral Visionby Corey deVosWe have the intuition that everyone is at least partially right, that no human being is capable of being 100% wrong. But how do you tell just how right everyone is? Some are more right than others—how do you tell the difference? Integral theory is an attempt to answer that question.The familiar Chinese proverb, “May you live in interesting times,” is

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We're at a unique moment in history, says UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown in the TED Talk below. Brown believes that we can use today's interconnectedness to develop our shared global ethic -- and work together to confront the challenges of poverty, security, climate change and the economy.

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Seeing Integral Leadership through Three Important Lenses: Developmental, Ecological and GovernanceBy Mark EdwardsThis article looks at the issue of leadership within three multilevel contexts. The first context relates to the developmental context of leadership as a process of ongoing growth through various stages. This context focuses on things such as values, cognitive capacities,

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Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Beliefby Jordan B. PetersonWe think we live in the "objective" world, but we do not. The objective world is something that has been conjured up for us recently - absurdly recently, from the perspective of evolutionary biology - by the processes of science operating over a span of five centuries (or, perhaps, to give the Greeks their due, over the last thirty

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