I focus on developmental philosophy and the evolution of consciousness and culture. This includes posts about philosophy, spirituality, and politics.
Boulder, Colorado.
Joined January 2020
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In this piece, @CultureDevelops reads the combined philosophies of Teilhard de Chardin and Whitehead as a diagnostic tool for the noosphere's political present.
Read the full piece: ctr4process.org/article/cult…
Steve McIntosh retweeted
In this piece, @CultureDevelops reads the combined philosophies of Teilhard de Chardin and Whitehead as a diagnostic tool for the noosphere's political present.
Read the full piece: ctr4process.org/article/cult…
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Great back-and-forth between @PF_Jung and @CultureDevelops around the question: how do we re-dignify traditionalism without falling back into its pathologies? Full convo here: youtu.be/GtFGOI1qqB8?si=A7uR…
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“The depth of our transcendence is determined by the breadth of our inclusion”
Amen… I have typically gestured at this same underlying principle via the more physical metaphor,
“A pyramid may only reach as high as its base is wide.”
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This conversation delves into the intersection of philosophy, cultural evolution, and the Hemisphere Hypothesis, beginning with a lecture by @dr_mcgilchrist, followed by a dialogue with integral philosopher @CultureDevelops and audience Q&A.
Watch here: youtu.be/0zjdypYYXIs
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self awareness gave life the ability to "see" past their own form, leading to the creation of Empathy.
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It's the most foundational question and remains stubbornly open. This openness is what keeps philosophy and spirituality alive in a culture saturated with scientific explanations—and a reminder of how mystery persists at every level.
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if you don't pay attention to conversations on the border, you run the risk of turning into, say, Jonah Goldberg.
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1. Consciousness can't be boiled down to just computation. The human experience is shaped by Qualia—the interior experience of what it's like to be human.
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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.”
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Integral philosopher Sri Aurobindo also saw how evolution moves toward intrinsic value, by attracting consciousness at every level “from the inside.” In his epic poem Savitri he wrote: “The infinite holds the finite in its arms, time travels towards revealed eternity.”
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1. Common objection that you should be able to handle:
"This political philosophy seems elitist" is a common objection.
Here is political philosopher Steve McIntosh's response:
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Developmental psychologist Robert Kegan defines integral consciousness as: “the capacity to see conflict as a signal of our overidentification with a single system.” In other words, dialectical thinking moves iteratively back and forth toward dynamic integration.
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Philosophy, Cultural Evolution, and the Hemisphere Hypothesis: A Lecture and Dialogue between Iain McGilchrist and Steve McIntosh
Thursday March 27, 2025 at 10:30 am - 12:00 pm PDT
Webinar
from Center for Process Studies, Institute for Cultural Evolution
ctr4process.org/event/philos…
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As in spirituality, so in politics. Pluralistic understanding bolsters pluralistic experience, which bolsters pluralistic practice. Culminating in holistic richness of being and newfound power
Here is a clip from my talk on post-postmodern spiritual pluralsim on why spirituality is more than practice. Watch the full video here: xitter.gq/CultureDevelops/status…
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Democracy isn’t just a system; it’s a cultural achievement—one that requires shared purpose, not just legal mechanisms. When trust erodes, the system becomes transactional, and transactional politics eventually collapses under its own weight.
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10/ Left leaning political bias in AIs is not inevitable. Low cost fine tuning of pre-existing LLMs with politically biased data can politically align AI outputs to target locations of the political spectrum: left, right or moderate. If you’re curious, you can try Leftwing GPT, Rightwing GPT and Depolarizing GPT at:
depolarizinggpt.org/
