I was actually meaning to say that. Sorry for the confusion. I copy &
pasted an excerpt from my book that lost the context. The main point in
saying "we need better ways of understanding." was that we need better ways
than the naturalistic worldview that is commonly accepted within the
scientific community and among lots of college students who are not aware of
more nuanced worldviews. I am trying to present the ideas developed in
recent years by Gregg and by TOK Society and by others. That is what I mean
by saying we need better ways of understanding. It was not to say that we
need better than what you guys have developed, but that we need better ways
than the reductive worldview of E.O. Wilson, Steven Pinker, and others. The
blog post that I linked lacked that clarification and that context. I'm
going to fix it.
Brandon Norgaard
Founder, The Enlightened Worldview Project
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Brandon,
Thanks for this. I enjoyed our conversation the other day, and I welcome
you to the list. I encourage people to check out his work on the Enlightened
Worldview.
I like a lot of what you write in your essay, but as I tried to allude to
when we spoke, I don't think you fully understand the UTOK and Garden
vision.
In the essay, you state:
In other words, even our best scientific knowledge cannot tell us how
psychology is related to biology, nor how psychology is related to
sociology, to economics, and to political science, nor how any of the
aforementioned social sciences can yield more reliable predictions and clear
explanations of the past. In order to close the enlightenment gap, we will
need better ways of understanding the mind and its relation to other planes
of existence within the
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Tree of Knowledge.
This IS what the Unified Theory of Psychology
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to Psychotherapy
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y-and-values> , Unified Theory of Knowledge
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Philosophy
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> does already.
Best,
Gregg
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Subject: Closing the Enlightenment Gap
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I wrote a blog post about closing the enlightenment gap, which is based on
an excerpt from my forthcoming book:
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My work is intended to tie together a lot of people's work, including
Gregg's and many others. The idea is that all of this fits together into
educational tools that can actually make a positive impact and help us
address challenges in the world. Not much of what I'm doing is original,
but I think it is important because I'm trying to show how these different
pieces come together and I'm trying to tailor the language to people who
don't necessarily have a background in philosophy or psychology or science.
It is a work in progress, but the idea is that this would be useful for
people who are trying to become more enlightened.
In the post linked above, the idea is to accurately summarize the notion of
the enlightenment gap. I am also tying it in with another notion of "The
Great Dilemma", which is kind of an updated version of Husserl's bracketing
of the natural attitude and which I got from lectures given by Darren
Staloff. I wrote about that in an earlier post. I don't want to
oversimplify or give an inaccurate summary of Gregg's or anyone else's work.
I wanted to show it to you guys and if anyone has any thoughts or
suggestions or corrections, let me know.
Thanks,
Brandon Norgaard
Founder, The Enlightened Worldview Project
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