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Every culture has its lore about the origins and nature of the world and its people. Those ideas are often associated with a deity, or deities, and an associated religion. But there arose in western civilization in the seventeenth century, in connection with the ideas of Galileo Galilei and Sir Francis Bacon, the notion of a “scientific” approach to our understanding of the nature of things.
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Stapp, H.P. (2017). The Origins of the Quantum Conception of Man. In: Quantum Theory and Free Will. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58301-3_1
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