--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Near the end of his life his thought turned more philosophical. In his > memoir, Wigner said: "The full meaning of life, the collective meaning > of all human desires, is fundamentally a mystery beyond our grasp. As > a young man, I chafed at this state of affairs. But by now I have made > peace with it. I even feel a certain honor to be associated with such > a mystery." He became interested in the Vedanta philosophy of > Hinduism, particularly its ideas of the universe as an all pervading > consciousness[1]. In his collection of essays Symmetries and > Reflections - Scientific Essays, he commented "It was not possible to > formulate the laws (of quantum theory) in a fully consistent way > without reference to consciousness." > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner >
Wigner was a speaker at MUM and was one of the original referees for Modern Science adn Vedic Science, IIRC. Lawson
