TY - JOUR
T1 - The 'hard problem' and the quantum physicists. Part 1
T2 - the first generation
AU - Smith, C.U.M.
PY - 2006/7
Y1 - 2006/7
N2 - All four of the most important figures in the early twentieth-century development of quantum physics-Niels Bohr, Erwin Schroedinger, Werner Heisenberg and Wolfgang Pauli-had strong interests in the traditional mind-brain, or 'hard,' problem. This paper reviews their approach to this problem, showing the influence of Bohr's complementarity thesis, the significance of Schroedinger's small book, 'What is life?,' the updated Platonism of Heisenberg and, perhaps most interesting of all, the interaction of Carl Jung and Wolfgang Pauli in the latter's search for a unification of mind and matter. © 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
AB - All four of the most important figures in the early twentieth-century development of quantum physics-Niels Bohr, Erwin Schroedinger, Werner Heisenberg and Wolfgang Pauli-had strong interests in the traditional mind-brain, or 'hard,' problem. This paper reviews their approach to this problem, showing the influence of Bohr's complementarity thesis, the significance of Schroedinger's small book, 'What is life?,' the updated Platonism of Heisenberg and, perhaps most interesting of all, the interaction of Carl Jung and Wolfgang Pauli in the latter's search for a unification of mind and matter. © 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
KW - Aristotle
KW - Bohr
KW - complementarity
KW - Heisenberg
KW - Jung
KW - Pauli
KW - Plato
KW - problem of mind
KW - quantum theory
KW - Schroedinger
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33646853355&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278262605001831?via%3Dihub
U2 - 10.1016/j.bandc.2005.12.005
DO - 10.1016/j.bandc.2005.12.005
M3 - Article
C2 - 16446022
SN - 0278-2626
VL - 61
SP - 181
EP - 188
JO - Brain and Cognition
JF - Brain and Cognition
IS - 2
ER -