Atmanspacher / Primas Recasting Reality

Wolfgang Pauli's Philosophical Ideas and Contemporary Science
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-3-540-85198-1
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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E-Book, Englisch, 340 Seiten

1 2 Harald Atmanspacher and Hans Primas 1 Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology, Freiburg, Germany,[e-mail] 2 ETH Zurich, Switzerland,[e-mail] Thenotionofrealityisofsupremesigni?canceforourunderstandingofnature, the world around us, and ourselves. As the history of philosophy shows, it has been under permanent discussion at all times. Traditional discourse about - ality covers the full range from basic metaphysical foundations to operational approaches concerning human kinds of gathering and utilizing knowledge, broadly speaking epistemic approaches. However, no period in time has ex- rienced a number of moves changing and, particularly, restraining traditional concepts of reality that is comparable to the 20th century. Early in the 20th century, quite an in?uential move of such a kind was due to the so-called Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, laid out essentially by Bohr, Heisenberg, and Pauli in the mid 1920s. Bohr's dictum, quoted by Petersen (1963, p.12), was that 'it is wrong to think that the task of physics is to ?nd out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about nature.' Although this standpoint was not left unopposed - Einstein, Schr¨ odinger, and others were convinced that it is the task of science to ?nd out about nature itself - epistemic, operational attitudes have set the fashion for many discussions in the philosophy of physics (and of science in general) until today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Atmanspacher, Harald

Primas, Hans

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;5
2;List of Contributors;7
3;Introduction;9
3.1;References;16
4;Wolfgang Pauli’s Philosophical Ideas Viewed from the Perspective of His Correspondence;19
4.1;1 The Traditional Relation between Physics and Philosophy;19
4.2;2 Physical Concepts Without Philosophical Precedents: Quantum Physics and Pauli’s Exclusion Principle;20
4.3;3 Pauli, Mach, and Positivism;23
4.4;4 The Article on Relativity: Felix Klein Introduces Pauli to the Art of Scientific Writing;24
4.5;5 Moritz Schlick and the “Vienna Confession”;25
4.6;6 Departing from Positivism: Complementarity, C. G. Jung, and the Problem of Opposites;27
4.7;7 Princeton, Panofsky and the Kepler Article;32
4.8;8 Collaboration with Philosophers at Zurich: “ What Went Where?”;34
4.9;9 Science and Occidental Thinking;35
4.10;10 Overview of Pauli’s Scientific Estate;37
4.11;Acknowledgment;38
4.12;References;38
5;Concepts of Symmetry in the Work of Wolfgang Pauli;41
5.1;1 General Introduction;41
5.2;2 Remarks on the Notion of Symmetry;48
5.3;3 Specific Comments on Symmetries in Pauli’s Work;57
5.4;4 Conclusion;85
5.5;Acknowledgments;86
5.6;References;86
6;A New Idea of Reality: Pauli on the Unity of Mind and Matter;91
6.1;1 Introduction;91
6.2;2 Mind and Body from Descartes to Leibniz;92
6.3;3 Pauli a Spinozist ?;95
6.4;4 The Unconscious in the Context of Discovery;96
6.5;5 Scienti.c Realism and Anti-Realism;99
6.6;6 Complementarity as a Basis of Weak Anti-Realism;101
6.7;7 Conclusions;102
6.8;References;104
7;Extending the Philosophical Significance of the Idea of Complementarity;107
7.1;1 Introduction;107
7.2;2 Compatibility and Complementarity in Quantum Theory;109
7.3;3 Epistemic Descriptions of Classical Dynamical Systems;109
7.4;4 Compatibility and Complementarity in Classical Dynamical Systems;114
7.5;5 Compatible, Comparable, and Commensurable Theories;115
7.6;6 Examples;117
7.7;References;119
8;Psychophysical Nature;123
8.1;1 Introduction;123
8.2;2 Is the Perceived World “Physical”, “Psychological” or Somewhere in Between ?;124
8.3;3 Perceptual Projection;128
8.4;4 Consequences for the Perceived “Physical World”;129
8.5;5 How the Perceived Physical World Relates to Information Processing in the Brain;131
8.6;6 Creeping up on Consciousness;133
8.7;7 The Relation Between First-Person Descriptions of Experience and Third- Person Descriptions of Their Physical Correlates;134
8.8;8 The Nature of Mind;136
8.9;9 Similarities and Di erences to Pauli;137
8.10;10 Similarities and Di erences Between Physical and Psychological Complementarity;139
8.11;11 Conclusions;140
8.12;References;141
9;Complementarity in Bistable Perception;143
9.1;1 Introduction;143
9.2;2 Bistable Perception;145
9.3;3 Complementarity in Generalized Quantum Theory;146
9.4;4 The Necker-Zeno Model;149
9.5;5 Temporal Bell Inequalities;154
9.6;6 Summary;157
9.7;References;157
10;Process Ontology from Whitehead to Quantum Physics;159
10.1;1 Introduction;160
10.2;2 Bifurcations;161
10.3;3 Perception;162
10.4;4 Time;163
10.5;5 Actual Entities;165
10.6;6 Prehension;166
10.7;7 Creativity;167
10.8;8 Teleology;169
10.9;9 Transmission and Concrescence;170
10.10;10 Quantum Theory;170
10.11;11 Process Philosophy and Quantum Ontology;173
10.12;References;177
11;Complementarity of Mind and Matter;179
11.1;1 Introduction: Pauli on Mind and Matter;179
11.2;2 The First Problem:;180
11.3;3 The Second Problem:;181
11.4;4 The Third Problem:;184
11.5;5 The Fourth Problem:;186
11.6;6 Symmetries of the Temporal Domain;188
11.7;7 Contextually Broken Symmetries;193
11.8;8 Descriptions in Terms of A-Time;195
11.9;9 Descriptions in Terms of B-Time;199
11.10;10 Complementarity of A-Time and B-Time;201
11.11;11 Extended Time Systems;203
11.12;12 Concluding Remarks;211
11.13;Acknowledgement;213
11.14;References;213
12;A Proposed Relation Between Intensity of Presence and Duration of Nowness;219
12.1;1 Introduction;219
12.2;2 Tensed Time and Tenseless Time;220
12.3;3 Can the Intensity of Presence Be Measured ?;221
12.4;4 Time Scales in the Necker-Zeno Model;223
12.5;5 Relations to Other Approaches;228
12.6;References;232
13;Synchronicity, Quantum Mechanics, and Psyche;235
13.1;1 Overview;235
13.2;2 Synchronicity Phenomena;235
13.3;3 Choice of the Past: The Photon Delayed-Choice Experiment;237
13.4;4 Models of Quantum Entanglement;240
13.5;5 Conclusions;248
13.6;6 Acknowledgments;249
13.7;References;250
14;When Pauli Met Jung – the Path from “ Three” to “Four”;253
14.1;References;258
15;What Is Mathematics ? Pauli, Jung, and Contemporary Cognitive Science;259
15.1;1 Introduction;259
15.2;2 Pauli, a Mathematical Platonist ?;260
15.3;3 Introspection and Archetypes: A Cognitive Science Perspective;265
15.4;4 Mathematics as a Product of the Embodied Human Mind;269
15.5;References;280
16;Psychological Research on Insight Problem Solving;283
16.1;1 Introduction;283
16.2;2 Definitions of Insight;284
16.3;3 Insight in Gestalt Psychology;286
16.4;4 Cognitive Theories of Insight Problem Solving;288
16.5;5 Problem Space Theory;289
16.6;6 Heuristics and Insight;291
16.7;7 Representational Change and Insight;294
16.8;8 Heuristics, Representational Change, and Insight;299
16.9;9 Neural Correlates of Insight Problem Solving;301
16.10;10 Conclusions;304
16.11;References;305
17;Exploring Pauli’s (Quantum) Views on Science and Biology;309
17.1;1 Introduction;309
17.2;2 Philosophical Concerns About Science and Reality;311
17.3;3 Towards a Quantum View on Biology;322
17.4;4 Conclusion: Transcendentalism Versus Naturalism, Irrationalism Versus Rationalism;333
17.5;Acknowledgments;335
17.6;References;336
18;Index;339