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Arthur Stanley Eddington
Also known as: Arthur Stanley Eddington, Arthur Eddington
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Quantum Approaches to Consciousness plato.stanford.edu Nov 30, 2004 6 facts
claimQuantum-inspired decompositional dual-aspect models have been proposed by Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung (Jung and Pauli 1955; Meier 2001), Arthur Eddington (1946), and David Bohm and Basil Hiley (Bohm 1990; Bohm and Hiley 1993; Hiley 2001).
claimArthur Eddington (1946) and John Wheeler (1994) suggested approaches toward a base reality that is neither mental nor material.
claimArthur Eddington described reality using an algebraic structure where idempotents function as operators to distinguish between existence and non-existence.
claimBasil Hiley's work, based on ideas by Arthur Eddington, provides an algebraic framework for understanding psychophysical correlations.
claimArthur Eddington, in his 1946 work 'Fundamental Theory', proposed a basis reality he termed the 'spiritual world' that is free from the mind-matter distinction.
perspectiveArthur Eddington proposed a theory of 'selective subjectivism,' which posits a tight link between physical objects and phenomenal perception, treating physical observation as a subjective act.
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 18, 2017 4 facts
quoteArthur Eddington remarked: "It is rather 'silly', given that we know nothing from physics of the intrinsic nature of matter, to suppose that its nature is incongruent with mentality and then to wonder where mentality comes from."
claimArthur Eddington independently expressed thoughts similar to Bertrand Russell's approach to the mind-body problem in his 1927 Gifford lectures (published in 1928).
quoteArthur Eddington stated in 1928: "Our knowledge of the nature of the objects treated in physics consists solely of readings of pointers [on instrument dials] and other indicators."
referenceThe book "The Nature of the Physical World" by Arthur Stanley Eddington was published by Cambridge University Press in 1928.
Critique of Panpsychism: Philosophical Coherence and Scientific ... thequran.love May 7, 2025 2 facts
quoteArthur Eddington stated that science provides the "structure but not texture" of the world, describing it as the external skeleton rather than the inner filling.
claimBertrand Russell and Arthur Eddington developed the notion that physics reveals only the relational properties of things, rather than their intrinsic nature.
Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 Edition) plato.stanford.edu May 23, 2001 1 fact
claimA recent revival of interest in the approaches of Bertrand Russell and Arthur Eddington has led to a view known as Russellian monism.
Panpsychism - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
claimPhysicist Arthur Eddington defended a form of panpsychism.
Hard problem of consciousness - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
claimWilliam James, Alfred North Whitehead, Arthur Eddington, and Bertrand Russell defended forms of panpsychism and neutral monism in the early twentieth century.