as an anaesthetic for the mind, while various adhesions and 
moral effects of false judgments are systematically eliminated.

     This is a very different thing from the numbing or narcotic 
effect of new technology that lulls attention while the new form 
slams the gates of judgment and perception. For massive 
social surgery is needed to insert new technology into the 
group mind, and this is achieved by the built-in numbing 
apparatus discussed earlier. Now the “technique of the 
suspended judgment” presents the possibility of rejecting the 
narcotic and of postponing indefinitely the operation of 
inserting the new technology in the social psyche. A new stasis 
is in prospect.

     Werner Heisenberg, in The Physicist’s Conception of  
Nature , is an example of the new quantum physicist whose