Hi Mike,
Per your email, I did look at "Theory Of Everything."
I've upgraded by estimation of him. His theory of
holons fits in nicely with Derrida's "supplement."
Holon and supplement are "double words": they work in
2 paraconsistent ways at once. Supplement is an
addition to the whole as well as a help from the
inside. Holon has the same effect: an addition but
also help from the inside. I couldn't find anything on
Spiral Dynamics so please let me know what that is.
But if it is about mixing and matching of pieces, a
string theory if you will, then I'm all for it.
> he accepts as he explains that he
> is a believer in many
> truths, rather than one complete and final truth.
I think this is an error. There is one truth we all
have: OUR NAME. I mean our own unique dynamic quality.
My general feeling against Wilber is his universalism.
Any act to "define" and "integrate" is an act of
universalism that I disagree with. Well let me use
paraconsistent logic here: I agree in the realm of
"logic" to integrate is a good and noble act. BUT it's
only half the battle. "Showtime" is the rest of the
story. I think Pirsig gets it right when half of his
book is "integrating" and half is "showing" his OWN
dynamic quality via a story. So I agree with Wilber's
integration and I disagree with it too: it shuts out
the "show" in the act of integration. It seems he
understands this with words like "holons". BUT he
would have to "act" differently to get it, in my
opinion.
> Pirsig on the other hand
> has provided a brilliant exposition on the self from
> an auto-ethnographic or
> phenomenological perspective.
Well said, but it's an essential point. He is doing
"art" and "philosophy" in one work and to me that is
the "emerging" way of philosophy. Wilber is doing
philosophology. Pirsig is to philosophy and Wilber is
to philosophology I guess.
>(in this
> case, and simplistically, the self and the machine),
> is the same as Wilber's
> position in many of his recent works - try also
> "Marriage of Sense and
> Soul".
This sounds like what I was talking about. Please
expand on this. I couldn't find this book. Wilber
would have to "show" in order to "get it" in my
opinion. Derrida does it and Pirsig does it. I'm
interested in people who "show" instead of just
"tell."
Angus
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