1 2 Harald Atmanspacher and Hans Primas 1 Institute for Frontier
Areas of Psychology, Freiburg, Germany,
[email protected] 2 ETH Zurich,
Switzerland,
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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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