Erwin Schrodinger
Physicist, Quantum Mechanics Pioneer
Erwin Schrödinger was a Nobel Prize winning physicist who is one of the key contributors to the field of Quantum Mechanics. The Schrödinger equation provides a way to calculate the wave function of a system and how it changes through time. Schrödinger's equation is a monumental discovery and, at a very fundamental level, shines light on what matter and energy is, and how matter is probabilistic at a quantum level.
He is perhaps best known for his thought experiment, "Schrödinger's Cat", which came from a discussion with Albert Einstein. Schrödinger's Cat analyzes the "Copenhagen Interpretation" of wave collapse, and illustrates the paradox of quantum superposition, and the probabilistic nature of reality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrodinger's_cat
Quotes by Erwin Schrodinger
"Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else." - Erwin Schrodinger"The total number of minds in the universe is one. In fact, consciousness is a singularity phasing within all beings." - Erwin Schrodinger"There is obviously only one alternative, namely the unification of minds or consciousnesses. Their multiplicity is only apparent, in truth there is only one mind." - Erwin Schrodinger"(1) My body functions as a pure mechanism according to Laws of Nature; and (2) Yet I know, by incontrovertible direct experience, that I am directing its motions, of which I foresee the effects, that may be fateful and all-important... The only possible inference from these two facts is... that I, in the widest meaning of the word, that is to say, every conscious mind that has ever said or felt 'I' – am the person, if any, who controls the 'motion of the atoms' according to the Laws of Nature." - Erwin Schrodinger"Plato was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it—against reason—as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience…" - Erwin Schrodinger"Our [Western] science has cut itself off from an adequate understanding of the Subject of Cognizance, of the mind. This is precisely the point where our present way of thinking needs to be amended, perhaps by a bit of blood-transfusion from Eastern thought." - Erwin Schrodinger"We are thus faced with the following question: Why should an organ like our brain, with the sensorial system attached to it, of necessity consist of an enormous number of atoms, in order that its physically changing state should be in close and intimate correspondence with a highly developed thought?" - Erwin Schrodinger"Briefly summarising, we can express the proposed law thus: consciousness is bound up with learning in organic substance; organic competence is unconscious. Still more briefly, and put in a form which is admittedly rather obscure and open to misunderstanding: Becoming is conscious, being unconscious." - Erwin Schrodinger"By the principle of objectivation ... we exclude the subject of cognizance from the domain of nature that we endeavor to understand ... Science must be made anew. Care is needed." - Erwin Schrodinger"Consciousness is never experienced in the plural, only in the singular. Not only has none of us ever experienced more than one consciousness, but there is also no trace of evidence of this ever happening anywhere in the world." - Erwin Schrodinger"The present is the only thing that has no end." - Erwin Schrodinger"I am no friend of probability theory, I have hated it from the first moment when our dear friend Max Born gave it birth. For it could be seen how easy and simple it made everything, in principle, everything ironed and the true problems concealed. Everybody must jump on the bandwagon. And actually not a year passed before it became an official credo, and it still is." - Erwin Schrodinger"We do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us. We are not in it; we are outside. We are only spectators. The reason why we believe that we are in it, that we belong to the picture, is that our bodies are in the picture. Our bodies belong to it. Not only my own body, but those of my friends, also of my dog and cat and horse, and of all the other people and animals. And this is my only means of communicating with them." - Erwin Schrodinger"By [the principle of objectivation] I mean … a certain simplification which we adopt in order to master the infinitely intricate problem of nature. Without being aware of it and without being rigorously systematic about it, we exclude the Subject of Cognizance from the domain of nature that we endeavor to understand. We step with our own person back into the part of an onlooker who does not belong to the world, which by this very procedure becomes an objective world. ... Science must be made anew. Care is needed." - Erwin Schrodinger
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