Guest guest Posted July 22, 2005 Report Share Posted July 22, 2005 "Consciousness I regard as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything we talk about, everything we regard as existing, postulates consciousness. [Even human individuals] are not objective realities independent of consciousness, and perhaps none such [objects] exist." - Max Planck (1858 - 1947), German physicist, considered to be the inventor of quantum theory "Physicists have chased the solid substance to the liquid, to the atom, and from atom to electron, and there they have lost it. Substance is not something hich is discovered by the physicist in the external world. Substance belongs to the everyday world because the mind has put it there. - Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 – 1944), arguably the most important astrophysicist of the early 20th century; most famous for his work developing Einstein's Theory of Relativity. "Gradually, philosophers and scientists [have] arrived at the startling conclusion that -- since every object is the sum of its qualities, and since qualities exist only in the mind -- the whole objective universe of matter and energy, atoms and stars, does not exist except as a construction of consciousness, and edifice of the conventional symbols shaped by the senses of [humankind]." - M. S. Bartlett (1910-2002), British statistician, specializing in analysis of data with spatial and temporal patterns Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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