Harald Atmanspacher Livres

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.

This volume explores Wolfgang Pauli's visionary ideas with respect to several topics in science and philosophy that are of contemporary interest. It provides material and suggests directions for future studies of a variety of deep-seated and open problems.

Exploring dual-aspect monism, this book emphasizes the significance of meaning as a core element of reality's structure. It delves into the interplay between mind and matter, offering insights into how these aspects coexist and contribute to our understanding of existence. Through a metaphysical lens, it challenges traditional views and invites readers to reconsider the nature of meaning in the context of the universe.

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 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.

Der vorliegende Band versammelt Beiträge zur Wechselwirkung zwischen Geist und Materie, einem zentralen Thema der europäischen Geistesgeschichte, aus den Perspektiven von Physik und Psychologie. Diese Wechselwirkung wird besonders im Dialog zwischen den Forschern Wolfgang Pauli und Carl Gustav Jung sichtbar. Ihre Korrespondenz und Manuskripte, die kürzlich zugänglich wurden, bieten bedeutende Einsichten in das Verhältnis von Geist und Materie. Um diesen Dialog fortzusetzen, ist ein interdisziplinäres Gespräch zwischen Physikern und Psychologen erforderlich. Eine Tagung, organisiert von der Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule Zürich und dem C. G. Jung-Institut Zürich, fand vom 13. bis 18. Juni 1993 im Centro Stefano Franscini in Ascona statt. Sie widmete sich dem Thema „Das Irrationale in den Naturwissenschaften: Wolfgang Paulis Begegnung mit dem Geist der Materie“ und wurde von Pier Luigi Luisi initiiert. Berater wie Paul Brutsche, Hans Primas und Eva Wertenschlag-Birkhäuser unterstützten die Veranstaltung. Berichte und Kommentare zu dieser Tagung wurden in der Zeitschrift Gaia veröffentlicht.