The Mind-Expanding Power of Complementarity

Nathan Brody, Paul Oppenheim

SP Jones

Klaus Kornwachs

Harald Walach, Hartmann Römer

We describe the concept of complementarity and argue that it is a useful concept for consciousness and other studies at the interface of conscious phenomena and physical reality. After outlining the history and source of the concept within psychology, we describe its place as a working hypothesis for the mind-brain problem. We then point out that generalized quantum non-locality could be of importance even for macroscopic objects. If this is so, complementarity would be the key-concept to understand EPR-like correlated systems.

Ruth E. Kastner

T. Bergstein

This book deals with the interdependence of the phenomenological and conceptual levels of experience.This interdependence is most objectively demonstrated by the complementarity of quantum physics.When examining the basic function of ordinary language within quantum physics it is seen that complementarity is fundamental to human comprehension itself, particularly to the interaction of language and mind.