Matter and mind: the observer effect (T. Jung)
The article is focused on the double-slit experience performed by T. Jung, as well as on the contradictions and opinions that arise among modern researchers when considering the theses put forward based on the results of the above experiment. Of course, it is not the experience itself that acquires special importance, but its subsequent versions and “side effects” in the form of diverse questions of a metaphysical nature that have not yet been resolved. We are talking about the observer effect as one of the manifestations of the connection between consciousness and matter. The double-slit experiment is today perceived not only as a physical experiment itself, but also as a mental experiment, within which it turns out that: (1) the observer is significantly limited in his ability to predict experimental results; (2) the observer influences the course and outcome of the experiment. the figure of the observer is a priori irremovable in postclassical scientific theory. Due to the unresolved problem of the relationship between consciousness and matter (observer and observed), many researchers come to philosophical, psychological, social and metaphysical research. The world is perceived as an integral, holistic construct, as an inseparable combination of the observed and the observer.