AQAL in the Wild at MIT

In his Simplicity blog, John Maeda of the MIT Media Lab and author of "The Laws of Simplicity" dissects various academic disciplines into what he calls the Bermuda Quadrilateral, but what looks a whole like the AQAL framework.

The big question: is this an accidental, independent discovery or has Maeda read Wilber and consciously applied the AQAL framework? On one hand, he says of the interior sciences, "there's always a secret wish to float into the freedom of no constraints", which certainly sounds integral. But in his following post, a reader alerts his to a researcher at Xerox PARC who came up with this image, and Maeda says of him, "clearly his seed was planted in my mind."

Another thing is that this quadrilateral physically maps on to AQAL, not just conceptually. I guess a 2x2 matrix is a fairly obvious way of representing it, but this is the second AQAL-like framework that I've found that locates the quadrants in the same places as AQAL. Weird.

Update: Another view of Rich Gold's Matrix.

Another Update: John Maeda replies in an email that he had not heard of AQAL.