Rethinking the Nature of Substance

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Tag: Heisenberg

  • [Old] Foreword: The Story So Far!

    [Old] Foreword: The Story So Far!

    The original book concept was big and ambitious. I tried to simplify it. But each of its parts increasingly appeared to form a single coherent whole. So I am now in the challenging process of bringing all of its parts together in such a way that each part illuminates all of the others, enabling their…

  • Space and Counterspace – by Nick Thomas – Ch.1 – Part 6 – Heisenberg & Goethe

    Space and Counterspace – by Nick Thomas – Ch.1 – Part 6 – Heisenberg & Goethe

    By way of further support for the importance of qualia in scientific endeavour, Nick Thomas refers us, in his fourteenth paragraph, to the authority of Werner Heisenberg. …

  • Heisenberg on Goethe

    Heisenberg on Goethe

    I have been aware of Werner Heisenberg’s respect for Goethe the scientist for some time, so was very happy to discover his 1952 lectures on “Philosophic Problems of Nuclear Science”. I give below a verbatim copy of the text of his fifth lecture….