Philosophical Speculations

Here's another one: Max Planck.

Another:
Erwin Schrödinger
https://www.hendrik-wintjen.info/consci ... -one-mind/
https://www.essentiafoundation.org/read ... -j-kripal/

I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense; they are forms, ideas which can be expressed unambiguously only in mathematical language.

Werner Heisenberg

Simon Adams wrote: ↑Sun May 02, 2021 7:57 pm

I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense; they are forms, ideas which can be expressed unambiguously only in mathematical language.

Werner Heisenberg

It's honestly interesting how many of the big 20th century physicists were idealists or idealist-adjacent.

I think most of the scientists mentioned aren't really idealists or, if they are, their idealism is largely unrelated to their work.

Piaget, Maslow, Carl Rogers, for example.

I don't think Husserl qualifies as a scientist, although he may have influenced science.

I'm not even sure Sheldrake is a complete idealist. His morphic fields could as easily be considered physical but, even if not considered physical, they are still affecting the physical world. That would make him more some sort of dualist.

Henry Stapp is probably about as close as you get to idealism in modern physics.

Maybe scientists that accept the "consciousness causes collapse" interpretation would be considered idealists of some sort.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neuma ... rpretation

Maybe Fritjof Capra.

Max Tegmark with his mathematical universe might be considered a variant of idealist.