Simultaneity : temporal structures and observer perspectives / editors, Susie Vrobel, Otto E. Rossler, Terry Marks-Tarlow.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marks-Tarlow, Terry, 1955-

Rössler, Otto E.

Vrobel, Susie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Simultaneity (Physics).

Relativity (Physics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (492 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to the question of how observer-participant perspectives are generated, what constrains them and how they may be modified. These questions are of vital importance and must be addressed in any discipline before formulating a hypothesis or designing a model about reality. Both epistemological questions about the nature of temporal nested structures and practical applications of our ability to contextualize are discussed. The resulting temporal observer-participant perspectives reflect approaches to the concept of simultaneity from the viewpoints

Contents:

CONTENTS; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Part I: Observer Perspectives: Epistemological Background; 1. Fractal Time: Extended Observer Perspectives S. Vrobel; 1. Introduction: One Dimension is not Enough; 2. Fractal Time; 3. The Nested Now: Simultaneity Horizons; 4. The Extended Observer; 5. Conclusion; References; 2. Mirror Neurons: Evidence for the Great Simulator and Vrobelism O. E. Rössler; 1. Introduction; 2. Deductive Biology; 3. Parallel Picture Processing; 4. Mirror Neurons; 5. Pandaka; 6. Time on the Big Screen; 7. Self-Similarity; 8. Toward Applications; 9. Conclusions

AcknowledgmentsReferences; 3. The Concept of Now in Dogen's Philosophy M. E. Luetchford; 1. Introduction; 2. The Theory of Instantaneous Being; 3. The Concept of Now in Dogen's Philosophy; 4. Time and Concrete Existence are Indivisible; 5. Conclusions; References; 4. Systems and Observers from a Holistic Viewpoint F.-G. Winkler; 1. Introduction; 2. The Observer Problem; 2.1. Inside versus Outside Observation; 2.2. Observation as a System; 2.3. The Representation Problem and Two Aspects of Observation; 3. Spacetime Holism; 3.1. Ontology; 3.2. The Universe as one Spacetime Whole

3.3. Infinite Complexity and Self-Containment3.4. Spacetime Structure and the Duality Relation; 3.4.1. Continuity and Discontinuity; 3.4.2. Levels of Description; 3.4.3. Non-locality and Locality; 3.4.4. The Duality Relation; 4. Spacetime Holism and Systems; 4.1. Self-Organization and Holism; 4.2. The System From the Viewpoint of Spacetime Holism; 4.3. Overlapping Systems; 5. The Cognitive Scenario; 6. Conclusions; References; 5. A Systems-Theoretical Generalization of Non-Local Correlations N. von Stillfried; 1. Introduction; 2. Non-local Correlations in Quantum Mechanics

3. Non-local Correlations as a General Systems-inherent PrincipleReferences; 6. Brain Time and Physical Time U. Fidelman; 1. Introduction: The Hemispheric Paradigm; 2. The Direction of Time; 3. The Direction of Brain Time; 4. The Multidimensionality of Time; 5. Physical Time and the Brain; 6. Further Temporal Dimensions; 7. Is There an Independent Physical Time?; References; Part II: Identifying Temporal Observer Perspectives; 7. Simultaneity in Emotional Moments G. L. Clore; 1. Introduction; 2. Emotions are Emergents; 3. Emotions as Meta-Experiences; 4. Mood Influences on Judgment

5. Mood Influences on Thought6. Multiple Kinds of Good; 7. The Emergence of Depth in Vision; 8. Conclusion; Acknowledgement; References; 8. On Time Experience in Depression H. M. Emrich, C. Bonnemann and D. E. Dietrich; 1. Introduction: The Brain as a Time Machine; 2. Time and Affect: Something about Anxiety; 3. Internal Balance of Values; 4. Inner Time Consciousness in Depression; 5. System Theory and Forgetting; 6. Neurobiological Experience; 7. Creativity, Consciousness and Forgetting; References

9. Contextualization: Memory Formation and Retrieval in a Nested Environment M. Piefke and H. J. Markowitsch

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-281-93410-0

9786611934101

981-279-242-2

OCLC:

879025292