Consciousness is a singular of which the plural is unknown; that there is only one thing and that what seems to be a plurality is merely a series of different aspects of this one thing.
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"God's existence or non-existence, and the validity of moral laws, are not matters for scientific inquiry."
"If you ask a theoretical physicist today, ‘What is an electron?’ he will probably say, ‘It is a symbol in the wave equation.’ We have got so far from the concrete picture of nature."
"The greatest change will be in the thinking habits of the human race. It will learn to look at things in a new way. Quantum theory will force it to do so."
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"The quantum theory is an 'unpleasant' theory, which I should have liked to assume to be true only if I were forced to do so by the facts."
Austrian physicist who shared the 1933 Nobel for the wave equation that bears his name and the famous cat thought-experiment. Closely associated with Werner Heisenberg (matrix-mechanics rival who reached the same physics by different math) and Albert Einstein (his pen-pal on quantum interpretation). For an intellectual contrast, see Niels Bohr, Danish physicist and architect of the Copenhagen interpretation — Schrödinger's cat thought-experiment was specifically designed to ridicule Bohr's 'observer-dependent reality' reading of quantum mechanics — Schrödinger thought the Copenhagen interpretation was absurd; the cat was meant as reductio ad absurdum.
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There is ultimately only one consciousness in existence, not billions of separate minds. What appears to be countless individual conscious beings are actually different facets or perspectives of a single underlying awareness. Our sense of being separate, isolated selves is an illusion created by perspective, like how one diamond appears to have many faces while remaining one stone.
Schrödinger, who formulated wave mechanics and the quantum superposition thought experiment bearing his cat's name, was deeply influenced by Vedantic Hindu philosophy. His book 'What is Life?' and 'Mind and Matter' explored consciousness scientifically. He believed physics ultimately pointed toward a unified reality, and his Eastern philosophical studies reinforced his conviction that individual selfhood was illusory—directly informing his quantum worldview.
Schrödinger wrote this amid mid-20th century quantum mechanics revolution, when physicists confronted the observer's role in collapsing wave functions, forcing hard questions about the nature of consciousness. Post-WWII intellectual culture saw Western scientists increasingly engaging Eastern philosophy. The measurement problem in quantum theory—whether observation creates reality—made consciousness central to physics debates in ways previously unimaginable in classical Newtonian science.
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