14
"The physicist Sir Fred Hoyle has suggested that the
paradoxes of quantum physics can be explained only if
we assume that future possibilities can somehow
influence the present and that therefore, in some very
real sense, the future has already taken place - [...].
"Clearly, the need to find a deeper foundation that can
embrace science and the 'paranormal' is one of the most
vital notions that has emerged during the twentiest
century. Yet obviously, even this way of expressing it
perpetuates the misunderstanding, since it speaks of
science and the paranormal as if they were separate
entities, rather than part of the same whole. The
philosopher Edmund Husserl was struggling toward the
same insight in his last book, The Crisis in the European
Sciences, when he pointed out that the Greeks had
divided reality into the world of the physically real and
the world of ideas. [...] Husserl argued that we have to
take a stand against 'scientific reality' and rethink science
until it can comfortably include the full range of our
human reality. Husserl, of course, was not remotely
interested into paranormal, and his work is doubly
important because it shows how a philosopher (who
began his career with a book on mathematics) can reach
the same philosophical conclusions closely related to
those of [Tom] Lethbridge or David Ash from the other
end, so to speak."
For the author of this quotation:
a. There is no comparison possible between Edmund
Husserl and [Tom] Lethbridge or David Ash.
Interpretation b. There is no paradox between the Newtonian Physics
of Nr. 14
and Quantum Physics.
c. Science and paranormal are parts of the human reality
Colin
Wilson et
Damon
Wilson, The
Mammoth
Encyclopedia
of the
Unsolved,
(New York:
Carol & Graf
Publishers,
2000), p.
629.
