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Dual-Aspect Monism and the Deep Structure of Meaning investigates
the metaphysical position of dual-aspect monism, with particular
emphasis on the concept of meaning as a fundamental feature of the
fabric of reality. As an alternative to other positions - mainly
dualism, physicalism, idealism - that have been proposed to
understand consciousness and its place in nature, the
decompositional version of dual-aspect monism considers the mental
and the physical as two aspects of one underlying undivided reality
that is psychophysically neutral. Inspired by analogies with modern
physics and driven by its conceptual problems, Wolfgang Pauli, Carl
Gustav Jung, Arthur Eddington, John Wheeler, David Bohm, and Basil
Hiley are the originators of the approaches studied. A radically
novel common theme in their approaches is the constitutive role of
meaning and its deep structure, relating the mental and the
physical to a psychophysically neutral base.The authors reconstruct
the formal structure of these approaches, and compare their
conceptual emphases as well as their relative strengths and
weaknesses. They also address a number of challenging themes for
current and future interdisciplinary research, both theoretical and
empirical, that arise from the presented frameworks of thinking.
Dual-Aspect Monism and the Deep Structure of Meaning will be of
interest to researchers and advanced students working in
consciousness studies, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science,
philosophy of physics, metaphysics, and the history of 20th-century
philosophy and physics.
This book reflects on the significant and highly original
scientific contributions of Hans Primas. A professor of chemistry
at ETH Zurich from 1962 to 1995, Primas continued his research
activities until his death in 2014. Over these 50 years and more,
he worked on the foundations of nuclear magnetic resonance
spectroscopy, contributed to a number of significant issues in
theoretical chemistry, helped to clarify central topics in quantum
theory and the philosophy of physics, suggested innovative ways of
addressing interlevel relations in the philosophy of science, and
introduced cutting-edge approaches in the flourishing young field
of scientific studies of consciousness. His work in these areas of
research and its continuing impact is described by noted experts,
colleagues, and collaborators of Primas. All authors contextualize
their contributions to facilitate the mutual dialog between these
fields.
This book reflects on the significant and highly original
scientific contributions of Hans Primas. A professor of chemistry
at ETH Zurich from 1962 to 1995, Primas continued his research
activities until his death in 2014. Over these 50 years and more,
he worked on the foundations of nuclear magnetic resonance
spectroscopy, contributed to a number of significant issues in
theoretical chemistry, helped to clarify central topics in quantum
theory and the philosophy of physics, suggested innovative ways of
addressing interlevel relations in the philosophy of science, and
introduced cutting-edge approaches in the flourishing young field
of scientific studies of consciousness. His work in these areas of
research and its continuing impact is described by noted experts,
colleagues, and collaborators of Primas. All authors contextualize
their contributions to facilitate the mutual dialog between these
fields.
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Quantum Interaction - 7th International Conference, QI 2013, Leicester, UK, July 25-27, 2013. Selected Papers (Paperback, 2014 ed.)
Harald Atmanspacher, Emmanuel Haven, Kirsty Kitto, Derek Raine
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th
International Conference on Quantum Interaction, QI 2013, held in
Leicester, UK, in July 2013. The 31 papers presented in this book
were carefully selected from numerous submissions. The papers cover
various topics on quantum interaction and revolve around four
themes: information processing/retrieval/semantic representation
and logic; cognition and decision making; finance/economics and
social structures and biological systems.
Information and dynamics are key terms in many contemporary
directions of research in numerous fields. Basic frarneworks in
this regard are information theory and the theory of dynamical
systems. The origin of both areas essentially dates back into the
20s of this century. An excellent presentation of the history of
information theory from its early days (e.g, Nyquist, Hartley)
until to the 70s has been given by J.R. Pierce et al. in the IEEE
Transactions on Information Theory IT-19 (1973). System theory, the
other branch mentioned above, also started with first publications
in the 20s (e.g., Kohler, Lotka). A historical sketch can be found
in 1. v. Bertalanffy's General Systems Theory (Braziller, Ncw York,
1968), the main body ofwhich presents a proper introduction into
the main concepts and applications. At present, both branches,
information theory and system theory, are hardly sepa- rable any
more. Aspects of both appcar in cybernetics, contral theory,
communication theory, computer science, game theory, cognitive
science, and related fields. Combin- ing knowledge of various
individual scientific disciplines, they are particularly useful to
deal with problems of basically intcrdisciplinary character.
INSTEAD OF A "FESTSCHRIFT" In June 1998 Hans Primas turned 70 years
old. Although he himself is not fond of jubilees and although he
likes to play the decimal system of numbers down as contingent,
this is nevertheless a suitable occasion to reflect on the
professional work of one of the rare distinguished contempo rary
scientists who attach equal importance to experimental and
theoretical and conceptual lines of research. Hans Primas'
interests have covered an enormous range: methods and instruments
for nuclear magnetic resonance, theoretical chemistry, C* - and W*
-algebraic formulations of quantum me chanics, the measurement
problem and its various implications, holism and realism in quantum
theory, theory reduction, the work and personality of Wolfgang
Pauli, as well as Jungian psychology. In many of these fields he
provided important and original food for thought, in some cases
going far beyond the everyday business in the scien tific world. As
is the case with other scientists who are conceptually inno vative,
Hans Primas is read more than he is quoted. His influence is due to
his writings. Even with the current flood of publications, he still
performs the miracle of having scientists eagerly awaiting his next
publication."
In our daily lives we conceive of our surroundings as an
objectively given reality. The world is perceived through our
senses, and ~hese provide us, so we believe, with a faithful image
of the world. But occ~ipnally we are forced to realize that our
senses deceive us, e. g. , by illusions. For a while it was
believed that the sensation of color is directly r~lated to the
frequency of light waves, until E. Land (the inventor of the
polaroid camera) showed in detailed experiments that our perception
of, say, a colored spot depends on the colors of its surrounding.
On the other hand, we may experience hallucinations or dreams as
real. Quite evidently, the relationship between the "world" and our
"brain" is intricate. Another strange problem is the way in which
we perceive time or the "Now". Psychophysical experiments tell us
that the psychological "Now" is an extended period of time in the
sense of physics. The situation was made still more puzzling when,
in the nineteen-twenties, Heisenberg and others realized that, by
observing processes in the microscopic world of electrons and other
elementary particles, we strongly interfere with that world. The
outcome of experiments - at least in general - can only be
predicted statistically. What is the nature ofthis strange
relationship between "object" and "observer"? This is another
crucial problem of the inside-outside or endo-exo dichotomy.
The essays in this topical volume inquire into one of the most
fundamental issues of philosophy and of the cognitive and natural
sciences: the riddle of time. The central feature is the tension
between the experience and the conceptualization of time,
reflecting an apparently unavoidable antinomy of subjective
first-person accounts and objective traditional science. Is time
based in the physics of inanimate matter, or does it originate in
the operation of our minds? Is it essential for the constitution of
reality, or is it just an illusion? Issues of time, temporality,
and nowness are paradigms for interdisciplinary work in many
contemporary fields of research. The authors of this volume discuss
profoundly the mutual relationships and inspiring perspectives.
They address a general audience.
1 2 Harald Atmanspacher and Hans Primas 1 Institute for Frontier
Areas of Psychology, Freiburg, Germany, [email protected] 2 ETH Zurich,
Switzerland, [email protected]
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."
Information and dynamics are key terms in many contemporary
directions of research in numerous fields. Basic frarneworks in
this regard are information theory and the theory of dynamical
systems. The origin of both areas essentially dates back into the
20s of this century. An excellent presentation of the history of
information theory from its early days (e.g, Nyquist, Hartley)
until to the 70s has been given by J.R. Pierce et al. in the IEEE
Transactions on Information Theory IT-19 (1973). System theory, the
other branch mentioned above, also started with first publications
in the 20s (e.g., Kohler, Lotka). A historical sketch can be found
in 1. v. Bertalanffy's General Systems Theory (Braziller, Ncw York,
1968), the main body ofwhich presents a proper introduction into
the main concepts and applications. At present, both branches,
information theory and system theory, are hardly sepa- rable any
more. Aspects of both appcar in cybernetics, contral theory,
communication theory, computer science, game theory, cognitive
science, and related fields. Combin- ing knowledge of various
individual scientific disciplines, they are particularly useful to
deal with problems of basically intcrdisciplinary character.
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Quantum Interaction - 9th International Conference, QI 2015, Filzbach, Switzerland, July 15-17, 2015, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
Harald Atmanspacher, Thomas Filk, Emmanuel Pothos
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference
proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Quantum
Interaction, QI 2015, held in Filzbach, Switzerland, in July 2015.
The 20 papers together with 2 invited keynotes presented in this
book were carefully selected from 27 submissions. Quantum
Interaction has developed into an emerging interdisciplinary area
of science combining research topics in mathematics, physics,
psychology, economics, cognitive science, and computer science.
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Quantum Interaction - 8th International Conference, QI 2014, Filzbach, Switzerland, June 30 -- July 3, 2014. Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 2015 ed.)
Harald Atmanspacher, Claudia Bergomi, Thomas Filk, Kirsty Kitto
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th
International Conference on Quantum Interaction, QI 2014, held in
Filzbach, Switzerland, in June/July 2014. The 19 papers together
with 20 invited keynotes presented in this book were carefully
selected from 22 submissions. Quantum Interaction has developed
into an emerging interdisciplinary area of science combining
research topics in fundamental issues, semantic and memory,
decision making, games, politics and social aspects, non-locality
and entanglement.
Related to the key areas of Pauli's and Jung's joint interests, the
book covers overlapping issues from the perspectives of physics,
philosophy, and psychology. Of primary significance are
epistemological questions connected to issues such as realism,
measurement, observation, consciousness, and the unconscious. The
contributions assess the extensive material that we have about
Pauli's and Jung's ideas today, with particular respect to concrete
research questions and projects based on and related to current
knowledge.
1 2 Harald Atmanspacher and Hans Primas 1 Institute for Frontier
Areas of Psychology, Freiburg, Germany, [email protected] 2 ETH Zurich,
Switzerland, [email protected]
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."
Der vorliegende Band enthalt eine Sammlung von Beitragen zum
Problem der Wechselwirkung zwischen Geist und Materie, einem der
zentralen Probleme europaischer Geistesgeschichte. Die Blickwinkel,
die dabei eingenommen werden, sind vorrangig die der Physik und der
Psychologie. Die Wechselwirkung dieser Gebiete wird so deutlich wie
nie zuvor im Dialog zwischen zwei Forscherpersoen lichkeiten dieses
Jahrhunderts sichtbar: dem Physiker Wolfgang Pauli (1900- 1958) und
dem Psychologen Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961). In zahlreichen Brie
fen und Manuskripten Paulis, die erst in den letzten Jahren
allgemein zuganglich wurden, finden sich bemerkenswerte und
wichtige Beitrage zu diesem Dialog, die das Verstandnis des
Zusammenhanges von Geist und Materie in einem neuen Licht
erscheinen lassen. Um den durch Pauli und Jung begonnenen Dialog
fortzusetzen und weiter fruchtbar zu machen, ist das
interdisziplinare Gesprach zwischen Physikern und Psychologen
noetig. Diesem Zweck diente eine von der Eidgenoessischen Techni
sehen Hochschule Zurich (der Hochschule, an der Pauli tatig war)
und dem C.G.Jung-Institut Zurich (das Jung gegrundet hat) gemeinsam
veranstaltete Tagung im Centro Stefano Franscini (Monte Verita,
Ascona) vom 13. bis 18. Juni 1993. Sie stand unter dem Thema Das
Irrationale in den Naturwissenschaften: Wolf gang Paulis Begegnung
mit dem Geist der Materie und wurde von Pier Luigi Luisi initiiert
und organisiert. Als Berater fungierten Paul Brutsehe, Hans Primas
und Eva Wertenschlag-Birkhauser. Berichte und Kommentare zu dieser
Tagung wurden in Heft 4/1993 der Zeitschrift Gaia veroeffentlicht.
This volume deals with fundamental problems of the natural sciences
and the philosophy of nature. The issues addressed touch upon the
many research areas of Hans Primas, and they reflect both the depth
and the breadth of his interests, ranging from nuclear magnetic
resonance spectroscopy, theoretical chemistry, theory reduction,
the measurement problem, holism and realism in quantum theory, to
the dialogue between W. Pauli and C. G. Jung. Each individual
contribution is prefaced by a short editorial introduction,
relating diverse topics to each other and embedding them in a wider
frame.
Are choice and free will possible in a world governed by
deterministic fundamental equations? What sense would determinism
make if many events and processes in the world seem to be governed
by chance? These and many other questions emphasize the fact that
chance and choice are two leading actors on stage whenever issues
of determinism are under discussion. This volume collects essays by
accomplished scientists and philosophers on the concept of
determinism. The contributions cover viewpoints from mathematics,
physics, cognitive science and social science, as well as
philosophy.
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