Pauli letter collection Pauli Wolfgang 1957 Pauli writes on an article by Kerenyi on Greek mythology and its connection with certain ideas which lately occupied Pauli's mind. ARC0201

Pauli letter collection Pauli Wolfgang 1957 Pauli writes on the physical ideas of the Stoics, their "pneuma" and determinism and field physics as against the Greek atomism. The modern field physics is a direct descendent of the Stoa and the old conflict between atomists and continuists still exists today. ARC0201

Pauli letter collection Pauli Wolfgang 1957 Pauli asks about a letter by two Italian physicists concerning Neumann's macro-observables. He writes on a gnostic myth about the mirror image of Nous which appears as Physics. This symmetrical relation forms the basis of physics. ARC0201

Pauli letter collection Pauli Wolfgang 1957 Pauli admits his blunder in predicting the conservation of parity and attempts to explain the psychological background. He writes on the symbolism of mirror-images, on his recent correspondance with Heisenberg on the dipole ghosts and psychological remarks about it. ARC0201

Pauli letter collection Pauli Wolfgang 1957 Pauli makes further comments on Salam's paper in the light of Fierz's comments on it. He writes on Delbrück's paper about the relation between physics and biology and makes some personal remarks on his "mirror-complex" and about Salam. ARC0201

Pauli letter collection Pauli Wolfgang 1957 Pauli makes a comment on Fierz's letter. He writes that equations which cannot be derived from a variation principle must fail in the end, both in the mechanics of points and in classical field theory. He speaks about a book by Jordan and he speculates on the origin of life. Pauli suspects that its first beginnings are non-reproductive phenomena like Jung's "synchronic" phenomena. ARC0201