By Makoto Katsumori
This e-book explores the trendy physicist Niels Bohr’s philosophical suggestion, in particular his pivotal notion of complementarity, with a spotlight at the relation among the jobs of what he metaphorically calls “spectators” and “actors.” It seeks to spell out the structural and old complexity of the assumption of complementarity by way of varied modes of the ‘spectator-actor’ relation, displaying, specifically, that the reorganization of Bohr’s suggestion ranging from his 1935 debate with Einstein and his collaborators is characterised by way of an extension of the dynamic belief of complementarity from non-physical contexts to the very box of quantum thought. extra, associated with this research, the publication situates Bohr’s complementarity in modern philosophical context through studying its intersections with post-Heideggerian hermeneutics in addition to Derridean deconstruction. in particular, it issues to either the shut affinities and the variations among Bohr’s proposal of the ‘actor-spectator’ relation and the hermeneutic inspiration of the relation among “belonging” and “distanciation.”
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Although, already in 1929, Bohr had spoken of “one and the same object” in the statement that “a complete elucidation of one and the same object may require diverse points of view which defy a unique description” (PWNB, 1:96), he had not formulated a relation between the single object and two phenomena. 55 For parallel expressions, see PWNB, 2:17, 24, 33, 39, 58, and 62. In the ‘late’ period, Bohr would largely replace the term ‘individuality’ by “wholeness” (PWNB, 2:72, 85, 3:2). 56 For parallel passages, see PWNB, 4:85, 101; and NBCW, 7:311f.
Specifically, he argues, “the contrast between the feeling of free will, which governs the psychic life, and the apparently uninterrupted causal chain of the accompanying physiological processes” may be regarded as a relation of complementarity. For, just as any attempt at “a detailed causal tracing of atomic processes [. ). Bohr does not, however, restrict causality to the physiological dimension. Rather, he claims more generally that “causality may be considered as a mode of perception by which we reduce our sense impressions to order,” while “the freedom of the will 29 This sentence was not included in Bohr’s original lecture, but added afterward for the version published in Nature (see NBCW, 6:112, 136).
37 Paul A. M. Dirac, “The Versatility of Niels Bohr,” in Rozental (1967, 306–09, on 309). 24 2 An Overview of Bohr’s Complementarity and experience including epistemology. As can be seen from the above discussion, complementarity in epistemology does not simply stand side by side with that in other fields, but is concerned with the logical relations common to “all domains of knowledge” (PWNB, 1:20; cf. 38 In other words, Bohr seeks to connect the situations of complementarity in various fields in terms of “the relation between subject and object which forms the core of the problem of knowledge” (PWNB, 1:117).