Robb Smith discusses the need for integrative conceptual work in today's world with Integration journal Editor-in-Chief Nicholas Hedlund and Managing Editor Brendan Graham Dempsey. Why do the interconnected challenges of the metacrisis demand integrative solutions? How are emancipatory struggles aided by embracing critical metatheory? What do the very patterns of knowledge integration suggest about a bold new story of wholeness? Finally, the three outline the vision and scope of the new journal and explore the nature and uses of an "integrative metatheory 2.0" beyond postmodernism.

Timestamps

0:00 IAM in the Context of Radical Social Morphogenesis

12:39 A Meta-Systematic Metacrisis in Need of Meta-Systematic Analysis

20:21 The Problems We Face and the Stories We Tell

31:39 Advancing a Worldview for Long-Term Good

38:56 Critical Metatheory and Emancipatory Struggle beyond Postmodernism

49:20 Knowledge Integration and a New Story of Wholeness

1:02:34 Integration: The Journal of Big Picture Theory and Practice

1:08:52 Integrative Metatheory 2.0 in Service of Planetary Flourishing

1:21:00 Competing Worldviews in the 21st Century for AI and Value Alignment

1:29:01 Conclusion

Dr. Clément Vidal discusses the work coming out of the Evo-Devo community and his contributions to theorizing the concept of worldview before unpacking the core aspects of a so-called "cosmic evolutionary" worldview, whose ideas resonate deeply with the integrative worldview being developed by the Institute of Applied Metatheory. We unpack his ideas around cosmological artificial selection and its connection to various forms of metaphysics, as well as how value(s) relate to this cosmic picture.

• 0:00 Introduction
• 0:58 What is the "Evo-Devo" Research Community?
• 5:05 The Problem with (and Promise of) "Progress"
• 11:51 Evo-Devo Research Questions
• 14:53 Evolutionary Philosophy and the Question of Worldview
• 20:59 Criteria for Comparing Worldviews
• 26:05 The Nature of an Evolving Universe: The Origins of Fine-Tuning
• 34:33 Cosmological Artificial Selection
• 52:04 Cosmological Variation in a Multiverse?
• 55:25 Evolution, Development, Complexity and Value
• 1:08:47 Worldview Competition and Cultural Evolution
• 1:14:10 Conclusion