Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge
Bohr's 1958 essay collection — late-Bohrian complementarity extended to biology, anthropology, and culture
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge (Late) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | NDet |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Space · Curvature | Curved |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Non-local |
| Matter · Extent | Finite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Non-local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Immediate |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Limited |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Reason |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Finite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Non-conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Discrete |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge
1958 publication; essays composed 1932-1957. Bohr was 73 at publication, four years before his 1962 death.
Space
Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge
Copenhagen Institute / international lecture circuit. The essays span Bohr's post-1945 international engagements.
Matter
Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge
Six-essay collection (~110 pages in standard editions). Form is philosophical-pedagogical, varying with the original audiences.
Observer
Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge
Late Bohr extending complementarity beyond physics. The observer-philosopher-physicist is in his final productive period, integrating the complementarity framework across the disciplines.
Energy
Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge
Late-philosophical synthesising energies. The 1949 Einstein-discussion essay is particularly important as the principal Bohr autobiographical-philosophical reconstruction of the Bohr-Einstein debate.
Information
Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge
Six-essay collection. The 1949 Einstein-discussion essay is the most-cited individual entry.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Late-Bohrian synthesis; canonical source for the Bohr-Einstein retrospective. The 1949 'Discussion with Einstein' essay is the principal autobiographical-philosophical document of the Bohr-Einstein debate — read continuously in the history and philosophy of physics.