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Science has enlarged tremendously the potential of human life. By augmenting our powers it has lightened the weight of tedious burdens, and opened the way to a full flowering of man’s creative capacities. Yet, ironically, it is the shallowness of a conception of man put forth in the name of science that is the cause today of the growing economic, ecological, and moral problems that block that full flowering.
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Stapp, H.P. (1993). A Quantum Conception of Man. In: Mind, Matter, and Quantum Mechanics. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-08765-7_10
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