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are the development phases much different that #KenWilbur integral theory?

A Primer on Integral Theory and Its Application to Mental Health Care

Contemporary psychiatry has become increasingly focused on biological treatments. Many critics claim that the current paradigm of psychiatry has failed to address the escalating mental health-care needs of our communities and may even be ...

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This reminds me of the "flatland" concept Ken Wilbur talked about, where the qualitative study of "interiors" is collapsed into an all-consuming quantitative study of "exteriors". For example the various attempts to replace psychology, as a study of the subjective human experience of being conscious agents, with empirical studies of behaviour,brain anatomy, or the measurable aspects of cognition (eg mental rotation).

#KenWilbur #flatland #psychology #cognition

@Elizafox the idea that the borders of the individual human body are also the borders of identity is a part of a larger assimilation of the social and cultural into the purely material. A fallacy I like to poach #KenWilbur's term for: flatland.

"You cannot understand what is wrong with rationalism until you are capable of being rational. You cannot go beyond rationality until after you can use it reliably. You cannot become meta to systems you do not appreciate and do not understand how to deploy."
- #DavidChapman
https://meaningness.com/metablog/stem-fluidity-bridge

Or as #KenWilbur might have put it, you can't transcend a stage until you can include it.

A bridge to meta-rationality vs. civilizational collapse

A bridge from systematic rationality to fluid meta-rational understanding may be necessary to prevent civilizational collapse.

"[Zuckerberg's] notion that connecting the whole world on one network was so obviously a good idea that it justified whatever means were necessary to get there."
- #RogerMcNamee talking to #DougRushkoff on #TeamHuman

An otherwise laudable desire for universal human unity, without respect for #DueProcess, or community rights to be autonomous from larger structures of power, is the essence of Empire. #KenWilbur pointed this out in 'A Brief History of Everything'. Democracy is network, not empire.

@clacke we agree that religious fundamentalism is a problem. Like the author on LW, you blame religion, I blame fundamentalism. Flatland (to borrow #KenWilbur's more colourful term for reductionism) falsely assumes that religion is about specific claims of *truth*, rather than *usefulness*. This is true whether you're on the side believing that useful but unproven (and perhaps unprovable) ideas are facts, or the side dismissing all religion because some people do that.
@Angle