Dual-Aspect Monism and the Deep Structure of Meaning av Harald (Turing Center of ETH Zurich Switzerland and the C.G. Jung Institute Zurich Switzerland

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<P><EM>Dual-Aspect Monism and the Deep Structure of Meaning </EM>investigates the metaphysical position of dual-aspect monism, with particular emphasis on the concept of meaning as a fundamental feature of the fabric of reality. As an alternative to other positions ¿ mainly dualism, physicalism, idealism ¿ that have been proposed to understand consciousness and its place in nature, the decompositional version of dual-aspect monism considers the mental and the physical as two aspects of one underlying undivided reality that is psychophysically neutral. Inspired by analogies with modern physics and driven by its conceptual problems, Wolfgang Pauli, Carl Gustav Jung, Arthur Eddington, John Wheeler, David Bohm, and Basil Hiley are the originators of the approaches studied. A radically novel common theme in their approaches is the constitutive role of meaning and its deep structure, relating the mental and the physical to a psychophysically neutral base.The authors reconstruct the formal st