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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