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The Nature of Time: Geometry, Physics and Perception

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Editors:
  1. Rosolino Buccheri

    1. Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica del CNR, Sezione di Palermo, Palermo, Italy

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  2. Metod Saniga

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

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  3. William Mark Stuckey

    1. Department of Physics, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, USA

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Part of the book series: NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry (NAII, volume 95)

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Table of contents (43 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Internal Times and Consciousness

    1. Internal Times and Consciousness

      • Simon Grondin
      Pages 1-3

    2. The Human Sense of Time: Biological, Cognitive and Cultural Considerations

      • A. D. Eisler
      Pages 5-18

    3. The Parallel-Clock Model: A Tool for Quantification of Experienced Duration

      • H. Eisler
      Pages 19-26

    4. Time in the Cognitive Process of Humans

      • R. Nikolaeva-Hubenova
      Pages 27-31

    5. Studying Psychological Time with Weber’s Law

      • S. Grondin
      Pages 33-41

    6. Time and the Problem of Consciousness

      • M. Binder
      Pages 43-51

    7. Temporal Displacement

      • G. B. Vicario
      Pages 53-66

    8. Discrimination and Sequentialization of Events in Perception

      • H. Atmanspacher, T. Filk
      Pages 67-75

    9. Time, Consciousness and Quantum Events in Fundamental Spacetime Geometry

      • S. Hameroff
      Pages 77-89

    10. How Time Passes

      • G. Franck
      Pages 91-103

    11. Reality, and Those who Perceive it

      • J. Sanfey
      Pages 105-113

    12. The Conscious Universe

      • M. Kafatos, S. Roy, M. DrĂGĂnescu
      Pages 115-127
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There are very few concepts that fascinate equally a theoretical physicist studying black holes and a patient undergoing seriolls mental psychosis. Time, undoubtedly, can well be ranked among them. For the measure of time inside a black hole is no less bizarre than the perception of time by a schizophrenic, who may perceive it as completely "suspended," "standing still," or even "reversing its direction. " The nature of time is certainly shrouded in profound mystery. This, perhaps, since the concept entails multifarious, and occasionally incongruous, facets. No wonder the subject attracts the serious attention of scholars on the one hand, and of the lay public on the other. Our Advanced Research Workshop is an excellent il­ lustration of this point, as the reader will soon discover. It turned out to be a unique professional forum for an unusually lively, effective and fruitful exchange of ideas and beliefs among 48 participants from 20 countries worldwide, selected out of more than a hundred applicants. The present book is based on the select talks presented at the meeting, and aims to provide the interested layperson and specialist alike with a multidisciplinary sampling of the most up-to-date scholarly research on the nature of time. It represents a coherent, state-of-the-art volume showing that research relevant to this topic is necessarily interdisciplinary and does not ignore such delicate issues as "altered" states of consciousness, religion and metaphysics.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica del CNR, Sezione di Palermo, Palermo, Italy

    Rosolino Buccheri

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

    Metod Saniga

  • Department of Physics, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, USA

    William Mark Stuckey

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