A Personal Assessment of Schrödinger’s Metaphysics

Photo by Crawford Jolly on Unsplash. For Schrodinger, the end was the end. Was that the way he wanted it?

The final in a series on the metaphysics of Erwin Schrödinger. Here we must ask the difficult question what role his moral and ethical judgment played in his view of reality.

I very much appreciate the surprising number of readers who have patiently journeyed with me through Schrödinger’s metaphysics. Attempting to understand another person’s ideas of reality is essential in evaluating one’s own deeply held beliefs. The result may be adoption of ideas you never anticipated accepting, modifying one’s own, or finding stronger support for existing beliefs.

I can say on reflection this journey has resulted in all three of those possible outcomes for me. I am sharing some of my personal responses to Schrödinger’s metaphysics, in part because of questions posed to me by some readers including those who are aware that I consider myself a more or less traditional Christian. This, then, is how a Christian might respond to Schrödinger’s rich explanation of his personal beliefs.

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