Recasting Reality: Wolfgang Pauli’s Philosophical Ideas and Contemporary Science 2009th Edition by Harald Atmanspacher (PDF)

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1 2 Harald Atmanspacher and Hans Primas 1 Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology, Freiburg, Germany,haa@igpp.de 2 ETH Zurich, Switzerland,primas@phys.chem.ethz.ch 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.

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⭐Scientifically based and very inspiring, this book gives insight into the work of one of the most brilliant minds of the past century: the physicist Wolfgang Pauli. The aim of the book is nevertheless not to provide a mere reconstruction of Pauli’s work, rather, it presents the current state of research with reference to ideas that Pauli formulated more than sixty years ago and that, in many ways, proved to be very insightful and, one could say, very ahead of his time.Fascinating is the broadness of the themes touched: not only physics but also philosophy (body-mind “problem”), biology (epigenetics), psychology (creativity and insight), time, the interpretation of quantum physics and more. For example, through their correspondence and discussions, Pauli and Carl Gustav Jung formulated an interesting view of the relationship between mind and matter: although epistemologically we experience a duality between these two aspects of reality (i.e. we experience them as different and separated), at the ontological level they may constitute a unity. In the book, similar views are discussed by two renowned philosophy professors, William Seager (University of Toronto) and Max Velmans (University of London).Importantly, this throughout inter-disciplinary book is based on scientific evidence. Although some of the topics treated are elsewhere often focus of esoteric speculations (e.g. interpretation of quantum physics, time, body-mind problem), this books proves that it is possible, desirable and fruitful to approach these topics within a scientific context (while also making clear that scientists should be very aware of the limits of the assumptions on which the scientific approach relies).

⭐Scientifically based and very inspiring, this book gives insight into the work of one of the most brilliant minds of the past century: the physicist Wolfgang Pauli. The aim of the book is nevertheless not to provide a mere reconstruction of Pauli’s work, rather, it presents the current state of research with reference to ideas that Pauli formulated more than sixty years ago and that, in many ways, proved to be very insightful and, one could say, very ahead of his time.Fascinating is the broadness of the themes touched: not only physics but also philosophy (body-mind “problem”), biology (epigenetics), psychology (creativity and insight), time, the interpretation of quantum physics and more. For example, through their correspondence and discussions, Pauli and Carl Gustav Jung formulated an interesting view of the relationship between mind and matter: although epistemologically we experience a duality between these two aspects of reality (i.e. we experience them as different and separated), at the ontological level they may constitute a unity. In the book, similar views are discussed by two renowned philosophy professors, William Seager (University of Toronto) and Max Velmans (University of London).Importantly, this throughout inter-disciplinary book is based on scientific evidence. Although some of the topics treated are elsewhere often focus of esoteric speculations (e.g. interpretation of quantum physics, time, body-mind problem), this books proves that it is possible, desirable and fruitful to approach these topics within a scientific context (while also making clear that scientists should be very aware of the limits of the assumptions on which the scientific approach relies).

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