Harald Atmanspacher
Biographic Data
| ID | 1287513 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harald Atmanspacher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harald |
| FAMILY NAME | Atmanspacher |
| SIGNATURE | ATMANSPACHER H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Collegium Helveticum University and ETH Zürich |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-7240-6817 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Psychophysical neutrality and its descendants: A brief primer for dual-aspect monism
A key ingredient of the metaphysical doctrine of dual-aspect monism is a psychophysically neutral domain, of which mental and physical aspects arise as epistemic descendants that manifest themselves by decomposition. This primer first introduces some elementary notions to define the basic concepts needed to understand the approach, such as those of states, state spaces, observables, partitions and correlations. Using these notions, the concepts o…
EEG correlates of cognitive time scales in the Necker-Zeno model for bistable perception
Synchronistic mind‐matter correlations in therapeutic practice: A commentary on Connolly (2015)
This commentary adds some ideas and refinements to the inspiring discussion in a recent paper by Connolly ( ) that makes use of a dual‐aspect framework developed by us earlier. One key point is that exceptional experiences (of which synchronicities are a special case) cannot in general be identified with experiences of non‐categorial or acategorial mental states. In fact, most exceptional experiences reported in the literature are experiences of …
Roles of causation and meaning for interpreting correlations
The essays by Tougas and Willeford address, among other things, a number of ways to understand causation, which play crucial roles in the framework of thinking proposed by Pauli and Jung. The intention of my following reply is to say a few words about how these options are related to one another within our reconstruction of the Pauli‐Jung conjecture. In the tradition of the sciences, looking for causation has become a virtually innate reflex to i…
Levels of unconsciousness and their formal structure
This brief essay replies to Carvalho's exposition of a formal approach to the concept of the unconscious which is originally due to Ignacio Matte Blanco (1908–1995), a psychoanalyst from Chile. It's a challenge – first because I have been largely unfamiliar with the details of Matte Blanco's approach, and second because the space available for this reply does not allow me to be as precise as Carvalho's essay no doubt deserves. I will start with s…
Psychophysical correlations, synchronicity and meaning
The dual-aspect framework which Jung developed with Wolfgang Pauli implies that psychophysical phenomena are neither reducible to physical processes nor to conscious mental activity. Rather, they constitute a radically novel kind of phenomena, deriving from correlations between the physical and the mental. In synchronistic events, a particular subclass of psychophysical phenomena, these correlations are explicated as experienced meaning
Information Dynamics
Encouraging metaphysics: A reply to the commentary by David Tresan
A structural‐phenomenological typology of mind‐matter correlations
We present a typology of mind-matter correlations embedded in a dual-aspect monist framework as proposed by Pauli and Jung. They conjectured a picture in which the mental and the material arise as two complementary aspects of one underlying psychophysically neutral reality to which they cannot be reduced and to which direct empirical access is impossible. This picture suggests structural, persistent, reproducible mind-matter correlations by split…
The Causal Closure of Physics and Free Will
This article focuses on the thesis known as the causal closure (or causal completeness) of physics (CoP)—that all physical events can be fully explained by physical causes governed by the fundamental laws of physics. This thesis raises well-known questions central to free-will debates about the nature and possibility of the “mental causation” of physical events (e.g., beliefs, desires, intentions). If all causes are physical causes, as CoP implie…
Quantenphysik und quantenalltag
Die Welt im Bild: Weltentwürfe in Kunst, Literatur und Wissenschaft seit der Frühen Neuzeit
Als Giordano Bruno 1584 seine Vermutungen über die Unendlichkeit eines ewig währenden und aus unzählig vielen Sonnensystemen bestehenden Universums niederschrieb, geriet die Welt noch nicht aus ihrer Bahn. Dazu bedurfte es erst der teleskopischen Beobachtungen Galileo Galileis, die 1608 den empirischen Beweis für Brunos Annahmen erbrachten und die kopernikanische Theorie in eine optisch nachvollziehbare Wissenschaft überführten. Das Fernrohr verä…
Between chance and choice: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Determinism
Fluctuations in the Dynamics of Single Quantum Systems
A structural‐phenomenological typology of mind‐matter correlations
We present a typology of mind-matter correlations embedded in a dual-aspect monist framework as proposed by Pauli and Jung. They conjectured a picture in which the mental and the material arise as two complementary aspects of one underlying psychophysically neutral reality to which they cannot be reduced and to which direct empirical access is impossible. This picture suggests structural, persistent, reproducible mind-matter correlations by split…
Encouraging metaphysics: A reply to the commentary by David Tresan
Psychophysical correlations, synchronicity and meaning
The dual-aspect framework which Jung developed with Wolfgang Pauli implies that psychophysical phenomena are neither reducible to physical processes nor to conscious mental activity. Rather, they constitute a radically novel kind of phenomena, deriving from correlations between the physical and the mental. In synchronistic events, a particular subclass of psychophysical phenomena, these correlations are explicated as experienced meaning
Fluctuations in the Dynamics of Single Quantum Systems
Between chance and choice: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Determinism
Quantenphysik und quantenalltag
Die Welt im Bild: Weltentwürfe in Kunst, Literatur und Wissenschaft seit der Frühen Neuzeit
Als Giordano Bruno 1584 seine Vermutungen über die Unendlichkeit eines ewig währenden und aus unzählig vielen Sonnensystemen bestehenden Universums niederschrieb, geriet die Welt noch nicht aus ihrer Bahn. Dazu bedurfte es erst der teleskopischen Beobachtungen Galileo Galileis, die 1608 den empirischen Beweis für Brunos Annahmen erbrachten und die kopernikanische Theorie in eine optisch nachvollziehbare Wissenschaft überführten. Das Fernrohr verä…
The Causal Closure of Physics and Free Will
This article focuses on the thesis known as the causal closure (or causal completeness) of physics (CoP)—that all physical events can be fully explained by physical causes governed by the fundamental laws of physics. This thesis raises well-known questions central to free-will debates about the nature and possibility of the “mental causation” of physical events (e.g., beliefs, desires, intentions). If all causes are physical causes, as CoP implie…
Information Dynamics
Encouraging metaphysics: A reply to the commentary by David Tresan
A structural‐phenomenological typology of mind‐matter correlations
We present a typology of mind-matter correlations embedded in a dual-aspect monist framework as proposed by Pauli and Jung. They conjectured a picture in which the mental and the material arise as two complementary aspects of one underlying psychophysically neutral reality to which they cannot be reduced and to which direct empirical access is impossible. This picture suggests structural, persistent, reproducible mind-matter correlations by split…
Roles of causation and meaning for interpreting correlations
The essays by Tougas and Willeford address, among other things, a number of ways to understand causation, which play crucial roles in the framework of thinking proposed by Pauli and Jung. The intention of my following reply is to say a few words about how these options are related to one another within our reconstruction of the Pauli‐Jung conjecture. In the tradition of the sciences, looking for causation has become a virtually innate reflex to i…
Levels of unconsciousness and their formal structure
This brief essay replies to Carvalho's exposition of a formal approach to the concept of the unconscious which is originally due to Ignacio Matte Blanco (1908–1995), a psychoanalyst from Chile. It's a challenge – first because I have been largely unfamiliar with the details of Matte Blanco's approach, and second because the space available for this reply does not allow me to be as precise as Carvalho's essay no doubt deserves. I will start with s…
Psychophysical correlations, synchronicity and meaning
The dual-aspect framework which Jung developed with Wolfgang Pauli implies that psychophysical phenomena are neither reducible to physical processes nor to conscious mental activity. Rather, they constitute a radically novel kind of phenomena, deriving from correlations between the physical and the mental. In synchronistic events, a particular subclass of psychophysical phenomena, these correlations are explicated as experienced meaning
Synchronistic mind‐matter correlations in therapeutic practice: A commentary on Connolly (2015)
This commentary adds some ideas and refinements to the inspiring discussion in a recent paper by Connolly ( ) that makes use of a dual‐aspect framework developed by us earlier. One key point is that exceptional experiences (of which synchronicities are a special case) cannot in general be identified with experiences of non‐categorial or acategorial mental states. In fact, most exceptional experiences reported in the literature are experiences of …
EEG correlates of cognitive time scales in the Necker-Zeno model for bistable perception
Psychophysical neutrality and its descendants: A brief primer for dual-aspect monism
A key ingredient of the metaphysical doctrine of dual-aspect monism is a psychophysically neutral domain, of which mental and physical aspects arise as epistemic descendants that manifest themselves by decomposition. This primer first introduces some elementary notions to define the basic concepts needed to understand the approach, such as those of states, state spaces, observables, partitions and correlations. Using these notions, the concepts o…
Epistemology (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Physics (5 works) · Quantum Mechanics and Applications (5 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs (3 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (3 works)