Time, Temporality, Now: Experiencing Time and Concepts of Time in an Interdisciplinary Perspective

by Harald Atmanspacher (Editor), Eva Ruhnau (Editor)

Overview

The essays in this topical volume inquire into one of the most fundamental issues of philosophy and of the cognitive and natural sciences: the riddle of time. The central feature is the tension between the experience and the conceptualization of time, reflecting an apparently unavoidable antinomy of subjective first-person accounts and objective traditional science. Is time based in the physics of inanimate matter, or does it originate in the operation of our minds? Is it essential for the constitution of reality, or is it just an illusion? Issues of time, temporality, and nowness are paradigms for interdisciplinary work in many contemporary fields of research. The authors of this volume discuss profoundly the mutual relationships and inspiring perspectives. They address a general audience.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783642645181
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	09/16/2011
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997
Pages:	396
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

Introductory Remarks.- I. Natural Philosophy of Time.- Theory and Experience of Time: Philosophical Aspects.- Whitehead’s Theory of Perception.- Delayed-Choice Experiments and the Concept of Time in Quantum Mechanics.- The Deconstruction of Time and the Emergence of Temporality.- Self-reference and Time According to Spencer—Brown.- Time and Information.- Time — Empirical Mathematics — Quantum Theory.- II. Cognition and Time.- The Brain’s Way to Create “Nowness”.- Temporal Integration of the Brain as Studied with the Metronome Paradigm.- Neurophysiological Relevance of Time.- Sensations of Temporality: Models and Metaphors from Acoustic Perception.- Cognitive Aspects of the Representation of Time.- III. Relativity and Gravity.- Concepts of Time in Classical Physics.- Nows Are All We Need.- The Quantum Gauge Principle.- Does Time Exist at the Most Fundamental Level?.- IV. Non-Relativistic Quantum Theory.- The Representation of Facts in Physical Theories.- Individual Complex Quantum Objects and Dynamics of Decompositions.- Decoherence and Quantum-Classical Correspondence in Chaotic Systems.- Spectral Decomposition and Extended Formulation of Unstable Dynamical Systems.- Dynamical Entropy in Dynamical Systems.- Nonlocality in Quantum Dynamics.- Process and Time.