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ABSTRACT
The One, by theoretical physicist Heinrich Pas, reviews the history of monism from the Greeks to the modern period. Pas proposes a monism he calls “the One.” His One follows from quantum mechanics. It is a universal wave function. He is then faced with how our everyday world arises. To answer he relies on a version of Evert’s many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics and a process of decoherence that results in a dualism of consciousness and the quasi-classical world of space, time, and matter. C. G. Jung proposed a dual-aspect monism influenced by synchronicity. A comparison between Pas’s monism and dualism and Jung’s finds some apparent differences, but in the end they are found to be remarkably similar.
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1. Wikipedia, s.v., “Quantum decoherence,” accessed June 3, 2023, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_decoherence.
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J. Linn Mackey
J. LINN MACKEY, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Interdisciplinary Studies, Appalachian State University. He has a PhD in chemistry and a master’s degree in social ecology. He has published articles on chemistry, interdisciplinary studies, and Jungian studies. He is a member and former board member of The C. G. Jung Society of The Triangle, North Carolina. Correspondence: 130 Hunt Street, Apt. 303, Durham, NC 27701; Email: [email protected].