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FRACTAL TIME

English · Hardback

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This book provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the notion of fractal time, starting from scratch with a philosophical and perceptual puzzle. How subjective duration varies, depending on the way we embed current content into contexts, is explained. The complexity of our temporal perspective depends on the number of nestings performed, i.e. on the number of contexts taken into account. This temporal contextualization is described against the background of the notion of fractal time. Our temporal interface, the Now, is portrayed as a fractal structure which arises from the distribution of content and contexts in two dimensions: the length and the depth of time. The leitmotif of the book is the notion of simultaneity, which determines the temporal structure of our interfaces. Recent research results are described which present and discuss a number of distorted temporal perspectives. It is suggested that dynamical diseases arise from unsuccessful nesting attempts, i.e. from failed contextualization. Successful nesting, by contrast, manifests itself in a "win-win handshake" between the observer-participant and his chosen context. The answer as to why a watched kettle never boils has repercussions in many a discipline. It would be of immense interest to anyone who works in the fields of cognitive and complexity sciences, psychology and the neurosciences, social medicine, philosophy and the arts.

List of contents

When Time Slows Down; Subjective Duration; The Fractal Structure of the Now: Time's Length, Depth and Density; Fractal Temporal Perspectives; Corrective Distortions; The View from Within: In-Forming Boundaries; Contextualization: Extended Observer-Participants; Temporal Binding: Synchronizing Perceptions; Nesting Speed: Global vs Local Perspectives; Duration: Distributing Content and Context; Modifying Duration I: Nesting and De-Nesting; Modifying Duration II: Time Condensation; Defining Boundaries: Why is It Always Now?; Outlook: Here There be Dragons.;

Product details

Authors Susie Vrobel, Susie Vrobel
Publisher World Scientific
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 07.01.2011
 
EAN 9789814295970
ISBN 978-981-4295-97-0
No. of pages 312
Dimensions 157 mm x 235 mm x 21 mm
Weight 605 g
Series Studies of Nonlinear Phenomena
Subjects Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Miscellaneous
Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works

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