Famous Idealists in the history of science
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Here's another one: Max Planck.
"I don't understand." /Unknown
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Another:
Erwin Schrödinger
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Erwin Schrödinger
https://www.hendrik-wintjen.info/consci ... -one-mind/
https://www.essentiafoundation.org/read ... -j-kripal/
"I don't understand." /Unknown
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Werner HeisenbergI 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.
Ideas are certain original forms of things, their archetypes, permanent and incommunicable, which are contained in the Divine intelligence. And though they neither begin to be nor cease, yet upon them are patterned the manifold things of the world that come into being and pass away.
St Augustine
St Augustine
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It's honestly interesting how many of the big 20th century physicists were idealists or idealist-adjacent.Simon Adams wrote: ↑Sun May 02, 2021 7:57 pmWerner HeisenbergI 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.
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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.
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.