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Studies on the structure of time

From Physics to Psycho(patho)logy

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Editors:
  1. Rosolino Buccheri

    1. IFCAI-CNR, PaIenno, Italy

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  2. Vito Gesù

    1. University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

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  3. Metod Saniga

    1. Astronomical Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Tatranskli Lomnica, Slovak Republic

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Studies on the structure of time

      • Rosolino Buccheri
      Pages 3-12

  3. Biological and Psychological Aspects of Time

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Psychological Time

      • Richard A. Block, Dan Zakay
      Pages 15-31

    3. The mental clock model

      • Maurizio Cardaci
      Pages 33-36

    4. The perception of time

      • Wolfgang Hanke
      Pages 37-48

    5. Subjective Time Versus Proper (Clock) Time

      • Ronald P. Gruber, Lawrence F. Wagner, Richard A. Block
      Pages 49-63

    6. Life Experience and the psychological suffering: psychiatric patients’ perception

      • Maria Alice Pereira, Maria Cecília Moraes Scatena, Renata Curi Labate
      Pages 65-74

    7. Time in biological systems

      • Jonathan D.H. Smith
      Pages 75-96

    8. Temporal Aspects of Neuronal Binding

      • Alfredo Pereira Jr., Armando Rocha
      Pages 97-105

    9. Do it with rhythm

      • Davide Marocco, Orazio Miglino, Richard Walker
      Pages 107-117

  4. Quantum Physics and Arrow of Time

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
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    2. Pregeometry and the Trans-Temporal Object

      • Mark Stuckey
      Pages 121-128

    3. Quantum correlations, large scale structure of the universe and temporal non-locality

      • Sisir Roy, Menas Kafatos
      Pages 129-135

    4. Algebraic Geometry: a Tool for Resolving the Enigma of Time?

      • Metod Saniga
      Pages 137-166

    5. Discrete spacetime: classical causality, prediction, retrodiction and the mathematical arrow of time

      • George Jaroszkiewicz
      Pages 167-189

    6. Scaling in cosmology and the arrow of time

      • Menas Kafatos, Sisir Roy, Richard Amoroso
      Pages 191-200

    7. The Arrow of Time

      • Danilo Zavrtanik
      Pages 201-209

  5. Real or Illusive Time?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 211-211
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About this book

Every human being is aware of the flow of time. This fact is embodied in the existence of such notions as the past and the future, the two domains being separated from each other by the single moment of the present. While the past is regarded as fixed and definite, the future is viewed as unknown, uncertain, and undetermined. The only perceivable moment is the present, the `now' - the ever-changing point moving from the past into the future.
Physics tells us a different story: not only are the vast majority of physical laws time-reversible, but the concept of the `now' itself has no place at all in physics. In other words, the equations of physics do not distinguish between the past and the future and seem to be completely oblivious to the very idea of the present.
This book discusses the biological and psychological aspects of perception of time, and the problems related to the determination of location arising from quantum physics, together with comments and opinions from philosophers and physicists.

Editors and Affiliations

  • IFCAI-CNR, PaIenno, Italy

    Rosolino Buccheri

  • University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

    Vito Gesù

  • Astronomical Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Tatranskli Lomnica, Slovak Republic

    Metod Saniga

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Studies on the structure of time

  • Book Subtitle: From Physics to Psycho(patho)logy

  • Editors: Rosolino Buccheri, Vito Gesù, Metod Saniga

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4285-8

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Basel AG 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-46439-3Published: 30 September 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-6922-6Published: 01 February 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-4285-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 306

  • Topics: Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics

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