Werner Heisenberg

The four dimensions in the 16-axis model where this thinker scores highest. People in this archetype tend to lean the same way.

• TETrust in Experience

  9 / 10
• TRTrust in Reason

  7 / 10
• TDTheoretical Drive

  7 / 10
• VAVital Affirmation

  6 / 10

The six thinkers whose 16-dimensional positions sit closest to this one. Useful as next-reading suggestions.

• Erwin SchrödingerCARTOGRAPHER

  What is Life? — the order from order across the boundary of physics.

• Wolfgang PauliCARTOGRAPHER

  Exclusion principle; Jungian correspondence on synchronicity.

• Niels BohrCARTOGRAPHER

  Complementarity — wave and particle held together by the question asked.

• Frank JacksonCARTOGRAPHER

  Mary's Room — what physicalism leaves out about the redness of red.

• AnaximenesPILGRIM

  Air is the underlying substance, condensing and rarefying into all phenomena.

• Christiaan HuygensCARTOGRAPHER

  Pendulum clocks, wave optics, plurality of inhabited worlds.

Short exercises in the same tradition as Werner Heisenberg's thought. Each takes 5–25 minutes.

• Argument mapping →

  Draw the structure of an argument as boxes and arrows. See its load-bearing walls.

• Reductio ad absurdum →

  Take a claim seriously, run it to its logical limit, see if you still believe it.

• Counterexample drill →

  Try to break a moral rule with a single concrete case.