The Molecular and Quantum Approach to Psychopathology and Consciousness — From Theory to Experimental Practice

Abstract

With the idol of certainty […] there falls one of the defences of obscurantism […] for the worship of this idol hampers not only the boldness of the questions, but also the rigor and the integrity of our tests.The wrong view of science betrays itself in the craving to be right; for it is not its possession of knowledge […] that makes the man of science, but its persistent and recklessly critical quest for truth.(K.R.Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery, engl.tr.Hutchinson, London 1959) Recently some major events have allowed a movement of thought not only innovative, but of profound and insistent criticism, mainly at a high intellectual and scientific level, on the