A Brief History of Everything: Revised Edition
As new cognitive capacities unfold and evolve, the Kosmos looks at itself with different eyes, and it sees quite different things.
Ken Wilber • A Brief History of Everything: Revised Edition
you and I can inhabit each other’s interior to some degree. You and I can share our depth. When we point to truth, and we are situated in truthfulness, we can reach mutual understanding.
Ken Wilber • A Brief History of Everything: Revised Edition
the simplest way to state the problem with maps is: they leave out the mapmaker.
Ken Wilber • A Brief History of Everything: Revised Edition
Yes, those are the first four tenets. Q: So now we have tenet 5: Each emergent holon transcends but includes its predecessor(s).
Ken Wilber • A Brief History of Everything: Revised Edition
That’s actually tenet 12, which is the last tenet I want to discuss. In that tenet, you give various indicators of directionality in evolution, which I’ll just list. Evolution has a broad and general tendency to move in the direction of: increasing
Ken Wilber • A Brief History of Everything: Revised Edition
“The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty.”
Ken Wilber • A Brief History of Everything: Revised Edition
new forms emerge, and that creativity is ultimate. Emptiness, creativity, holons.
Ken Wilber • A Brief History of Everything: Revised Edition
The point is that a holon responds, and can respond, only to those stimuli that fall within its worldspace, its worldview. Everything else is nonexistent.
Ken Wilber • A Brief History of Everything: Revised Edition
Imagine there is a greater consciousness that we are oblivious to, just as cells are oblivious to the consciousness of the organism they comprise
simply take the problems of the subsequent level and compare them with the accomplishments of the previous level,