Recasting Reality [electronic resource] : Wolfgang Pauli's Philosophical Ideas and Contemporary Science /
Atmanspacher, Harald.editor.
Primas, Hans.editor.
Wolfgang Pauli was not only one of the most influential physicists of the 20th century: His huge correspondence and unpublished manuscripts also demonstrate his deep interest in questions beyond physics. This volume explores the relevance of Pauli's visionary ideas with respect to several topics in science and philosophy that are if great contemporary interest: the role of symmetries in theoretical science; dual-aspect approaches to the mind-brain problem; the tension between psychological and physical time; the nature of creative activity and the origin of mathematical insight; and adaptive mutations and epigenetics in biology. Today we are in a position to appreciate how relevant Pauli's work and speculations have turned out to be. This book, authored by a team of internationally renowned experts, provides material and suggests directions for future studies of a variety of deep-seated and open problems, in particular concerning the relation between mind and matter.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Wolfgang Pauli's Philosophical Ideas Viewed from the Perspective of His Correspondence -- Concepts of Symmetry in the Work of Wolfgang Pauli -- A New Idea of Reality: Pauli on the Unity of Mind and Matter -- Extending the Philosophical Significance of the Idea of Complementarity -- Psychophysical Nature -- Complementarity in Bistable Perception -- Process Ontology from Whitehead to Quantum Physics -- Complementarity of Mind and Matter -- A Proposed Relation Between Intensity of Presence and Duration of Nowness -- Synchronicity, Quantum Mechanics, and Psyche -- When Pauli Met Jung - the Path from "Three" to "Four" -- What Is Mathematics? Pauli, Jung,and Contemporary Cognitive Science -- Psychological Research on Insight Problem Solving -- Exploring Pauli's (Quantum) Views on Science and Biology.
Wolfgang Pauli was not only one of the most influential physicists of the 20th century: His huge correspondence and unpublished manuscripts also demonstrate his deep interest in questions beyond physics. This volume explores the relevance of Pauli's visionary ideas with respect to several topics in science and philosophy that are if great contemporary interest: the role of symmetries in theoretical science; dual-aspect approaches to the mind-brain problem; the tension between psychological and physical time; the nature of creative activity and the origin of mathematical insight; and adaptive mutations and epigenetics in biology. Today we are in a position to appreciate how relevant Pauli's work and speculations have turned out to be. This book, authored by a team of internationally renowned experts, provides material and suggests directions for future studies of a variety of deep-seated and open problems, in particular concerning the relation between mind and matter.
Pauli, Wolfgang, 1900-1958.
Philosophy and science.
Physics.
Evolutionary biology.
Mathematical logic.
Philosophy of Science.
Physics, general.
Evolutionary Biology.
Mathematical Logic and Foundations.