RT @InstCulturalEvo: Jürgen Habermas on *the dialectic of progress*: “A higher stage of development … does bring relief from the problems of the superseded stage. But the problems that arise at the new stage of development can—insofar as they are comparable with the old ones—increase in intensity.”

RT @InstCulturalEvo: Clare W. Graves said each stage of consciousness is best adapted to its life conditions. But he also wrote “higher levels are better than lower levels and that the prime good of any society’s governing figures should be to promote human movement up the levels of human existence”

RT @InstCulturalEvo: Cultivating the further evolution of consciousness and culture is humanity’s transcendent purpose. As eminent polymath Michael Polanyi wrote, “The theory of evolution finally bursts through the bounds of natural science and becomes entirely an affirmation of man’s ultimate aims.”

RT @InstCulturalEvo: Integral philosopher Henri Bergson was among the first to understand the vital role of the evolutionary impulse, writing: “Consciousness appears as the motivating principle of evolution.” It drives development and results in “the mobility of the real.”

RT @InstCulturalEvo: As Pierre Teilhard de Chardin wrote: “The Universal and personal grow in the same direction and culminate simultaneously in each other.” Each life expresses this principle through its microcosmic, self-similar enactment of the entire process of the evolving universe as a whole.

RT @InstCulturalEvo: Process philosopher Alfred North Whitehead defined evolution overall as: *an increase in the capacity to experience what is intrinsically valuable.* This consciousness-centric definition of evolution remains one of my favorite ideas in all philosophy.

RT @carter_phipps: Loved this conversation with Steve McIntosh about evolution, free will, and human nature @InstCulturalEvo @stephlepp https://www.carterphipps.com/2023/01/23/steve-mcintosh-does-human-nature-evolve/ https://t.co/r9dvjjdE8U

Listening to “Steve McIntosh: Does Human Nature Evolve?” at https://www.buzzsprout.com/1184687/12096620

Listening to “Integral Conversations: Culture Wars and Human Progress with Jeff Salzman” at https://www.buzzsprout.com/1184687/12013040-integral-conversations-culture-wars-and-human-progress-with-jeff-salzman

Meme Lords Deserve More Respect, by @garysheng https://open.substack.com/pub/garysheng/p/memelords?r=1xscte&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web