In classical physics, the world is considered as a matter-based reality, the arrangement of whose parts in time is uniquely determined by certain dynamic laws. By contrast, modern quantum physics reveals that matter is not composed of matter, but reality is merely potentiality. The world has a holistic structure, which is based on fundamental relations and not material objects, admitting more open, indeterministic developments. In this more flexible causal framework, inanimate and animate matter are not to be considered as fundamentally (...) different but as different order structures of the same immaterial entity. In a stable configuration, effectively all the uncertainties are statistically averaged out, thus the unique and deterministic behavior of ordinary inanimate matter is exhibited; whereas in the case of statically unstable but dynamically stable configurations, the “lively” features of the underlying quantum structure have a chance to surface to the mesocopic level and to be connected with what we observe as the phenomenon of life. This supposition can be more explicitly treated and clarified by identifying the electric dipole moment of biomolecules as the ordering parameter of the corresponding macroquantum system. This has important consequences for biology and medicine. In particular, it suggests the existence of a quantum-based “software,” essential perhaps for the logistics of biological processes, which are hidden behind the matter/energy-based “hardware” that alone is considered in the conventional approach. In medicine it opens an opportunity to build bridges between conventional medicine based essentially on the classical paradigm, and the various forms of complementary medicine, which have strong affinities with the new features of the modern holistic worldview. (shrink)

Kaum ein anderer lebender Naturwissenschaftler besitzt die Fähigkeit, mit solcher Geistesklarheit die tiefsten Einsichten von moderner Quantenphysik mit dem uralten spirituellen Menschheitswissen zu verknüpfen wie - Hans-Peter Dürr! Es gelingt Dürr scheinbar mühelos, eine Synthese zwischen den meditativen Einsichten der Weisen des Ostens und den aktuellen Erkenntnissen der modernen Naturwissenschaften herzustellen. Dabei verliert er sich niemals in langatmigen akademischen Erläuterungen, sondern hat stets den Menschen und die gesellschaftliche Wirklichkeit des 21. Jahrhunderts im Blick. Ein Brückenschlag zwischen zwei Welten, der vielleicht (...) niemals notwendiger war als zurzeit. Eine kleines Meisterwerk, das in einleuchtender Weise aufzeigt - alles Leben ist EINS! (shrink)

Segundo as descobertas da Física Moderna (Física Quántica), Realidade (Wirklichkeit em Alemão) não é mais o real que nos é familiar e tangível (cousal), mas algo bem diferente, tanto espacial como temporalmente, algo claramente mais aberto. Trata-se de algo holístico, uma Gestalt de carácter a-material, uma relação depura inter-conexão ("a-dvaita"), uma potencialidade inseparável, similar ao amor espiritual e omnicompreensivo. Ou seja, segundo o autor, a realidade está possuída por uma tonalidade processual, uma inspiração holística e intimamente conectada, uma transformação, um (...) processo contínuo de criação e aniquilamento, com o potencial de se manifestar a si mesma de um modo em que predomina uma essencial complementaridade dual energético-material. Assim, para o autor do artigo, o mundo em que vivemos, Wirklichkeit, não pode ser propriamente compreendido em termos puramente ontológicos. Segundo o autor, a questão : O que é, o que é que existe? torna-se uma questão desprovida de sentido. Em sua opinião, admissíveis seriam apenas questões acerca do que propriamente actua (wirkt), do que acontece, do que conecta, ou, por outras palavras, a questão do "entre". Consequentemente, a evolução no tempo e no espaço não procede mais de leis causais estritamente determinadas, pois o que existe são apenas tendências gerais intrínsecas (expectações), caracterizadas por probabilidades relativas a uma infinidade de realizações possíveis, as quais em média, pelo processo de sobreposições descoerentes, nos fazem voltar à nossa concepção comum do mundo como sendo uma realidade tangível dominada por leis naturais rigorosa e universalmente válidas. /// According to the findings of modern physics (quantum physics) Reality (in German more appropriate: Wirklichkeitj is basically no more the familiar, tangible (thing-like) reality but quite different and, spatially and temporally, more open. It is a holistic a-material "Gestalt", a pure connectedness ("a-dvaita"), an inseparable potentiality, similar to the spiritual and to all-embracing love. It relates to a processlike holistic and intimately connected inspiration and transformation, a continuous creation and annihilation, with the potential manifesting itself with some vagueness in complementary dual and essentially energetic/material diversified fashion. Hence, for the author, the world in which we are living, Wirklichkeit, cannot be understood strictly in an ontological way. The question: What is, what exists? becomes meaningless. Questions still admissible are: What acts (wirkt), happens, binds?, the question for the "in-between". The evolution in time does not follow anymore from strictly determined causal laws but there are only general intrinsic tendencies ("expectations"), characterised by probabilities for infinitely many possible realizations, which on average (decoherent superpositions) lead back to our familiar conception of the world as an objective tangible reality with its rigorously valid natural laws. (shrink)