Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1933

Pencil notes at the end of Erwin Schroedinger’s What Is Life? (New York: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1956)

No date

 

Original is missing.

 

 

 

 

    

     The objective world is the field and subject-matter of objective experience. It comprises all that can be experienced objectively.

     The objective world manifests itself (to the subjective) in discrete units — primarily sense impressions — called actions, happenings, events, the general and inclusive term for which is action.

     We are so finitely constituted that the least event we can experience objectively is the quantum, the least unit of action, of which whole (and objectively indivisible) units all greater events are composed.

     The quanta are composite of three elements or aspects. These are measurable in units of mass (per unit of motion), motion (per unit of time), and time (in units of time) — mass and motion relative as ratios and time absolute.