Harald Atmanspacher, PhD, is a senior scientist and staff member at Collegium Helveticum, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, since 2007. After his PhD in physics at Munich University (1986), he worked as a research scientist at the Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics at Garching until 1998. Then he served as head of the theory group at the Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology at Freiburg until 2013. His fields of research are the theory of complex systems, conceptual and theoretical aspects of (algebraic) quantum theory, and mind-matter relations from interdisciplinary perspectives. He is the president of the Society for Mind-Matter Research and editor-in-chief of the interdisciplinary international journal Mind and Matter. For more details see collegium.ethz.ch/en/about-us/staff/pd-dr-harald-atmanspacher/.
Harald Atmanspacher
Physicist, The Collegium Helveticum (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Papers / Presentations
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Apr 12th
2014
Apr 12th
2014
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Synchronicity: On the Spectrum of Mind and Matter
“I have no doubt that the placing side by side of the points of view of a physicist and a psychologist will also prove to be a form of reflection.” —Wolfgang Pauli “Since physicists are the only people nowadays who would be able to deal with such a concept successfully, it is from a physicist... read more! »
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Nov 5th
2014
Nov 5th
2014
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Synchronicity and Other Mind Matter Conjectures
This program, co-sponsored by The Jungian Psychoanalytic Association and The Helix Center is free and open to the public. Pre-registration is required. For more information, consult the JPA website www.nyjung.org or contact Allison Tuzo at JPA@nyjung.org How are mind and matter related? In the mid-20th century, the psychiatrist and analyst Carl Gustav Jung and the... read more! »
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Dec 7th
2019
Dec 7th
2019
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Mathematics and Other Realities
The question of what the world in which we live consists of is as old as mankind itself. In philosophical jargon, this is the question of the ontological basis of reality. With the growing success of physics and other sciences, the idea of one fundamental ontology, that of particles and fields, became dominant as a... read more! »
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Apr 30th
2022
Apr 30th
2022
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Metaphysics
Physics being the study of the fundamental properties of Nature, as the name implies, metaphysics investigates the nature of Nature, the what-must-therefore-be-the-case of those discoverable physical properties. For centuries, either explicitly or implicitly, metaphysics created the background and organizing principles for scientific research. But as the 20th century progressed there arose a number of challenges... read more! »