Items from the list of books recommended by Dr Feldenkrais for SF training, 1975
Erwin SCHRÖDINGER (1887-1961)
- Mind and Matter (1956), Cambridge, University press, 1958 ;
- Science, Theory and Man (1935?) [published as Science and the human temperament, London, G. Allen and Unwin, 1957] freely available at https://archive.org/details/scienceandthehum029246mbp
Physicist, philosopher and scientist of Austrian origin, he went into permanent exile in Ireland in
1938, in open opposition to Nazism. His contributions to theoretical physics, mechanics and even
biology had a major impact. We owe him, for example, the notion of negative entropy. In the
works mentioned by Feldenkrais, he insisted on science’s involvement in the crisis of civilization.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933, along with Paul Dirac, for his work on the
theoretical formalization of quantum mechanics. He was particularly interested in the power of
imagination in thought experiments and even in problem-solving. He was elected a Foreign
Member of the British Royal Society in 1949. He inspired discoveries about the double helix
structure of DNA. A devotee of Vedanta, he supports the concept of individual consciousness as
the manifestation of a unitary consciousness.
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