Erwin Schrödinger
1887–1961 · Philosophy of Science · Renowned
Schrödinger was an Austrian physicist who won the Nobel Prize for the wave equation. The cat alive and dead in a box was his own case built to embarrass the idea that a wavefunction is a real thing that collapses, and he never held that picture himself. Away from physics he argued for a Vedantic monism: there is one consciousness, its division into separate minds is illusion, and the conscious subject gets left out of the picture of the world it builds.
Signature
The position Schrödinger is most identified with in the Profiler:
- Nature of Reality
- strongly leans Multiplicity
- Death
- Union with the One
Positions on the 2 axes the sources answer
- Mind
- strongly leans Beyond Brain (96 on a 0–100 scale from Brain Only to Beyond Brain)
- Nature of Reality
- strongly leans Multiplicity (100 on a 0–100 scale from Unity to Multiplicity)
18 of 20 axes are left blank: the sources do not answer them, or Schrödinger refused the framing. Nothing is imputed; a blank is not a middling score.
Foundational questions
- Theology
- Pantheism
What is your position on the existence and nature of God or gods? - Perception
- Idealism
What do we directly perceive? - Death
- Union with the One
What happens at death? - Primary Bond
- All Beings
What is your primary bond and loyalty?