The Nature of Time: Geometry, Physics and Perception. Edited by Rosolino Buccheri, Metod Saniga, and William Mark Stuckey. Kluwer Academic Publishers: Dordrecht / Boston / London (published in cooperation with NATO Scientific Affairs Division), 2003
Contents
Preface List of participants Group photo Chapter 1: Internal Times and Consciousness S. Grondin:
An Overview A. D. Eisler:
The Human Sense of Time:
Biological, Cognitive and Cultural Considerations H. Eisler:
The Parallel-Clock Model:
a Tool for Quantification of Experienced Duration R. Nikolaeva-Hubenova:
Time in the Cognitive Process of Humans S. Grondin:
Studying Psychological Time with Weber's Law M. Binder:
Time and the Problem of Consciousness G. B. Vicario
Temporal Displacement H. Atmanspacher and T. Filk
Discrimination and Sequentialization of Events in Perception S. Hameroff:
Time, Consciousness and
Quantum Events in Fundamental Spacetime Geometry G. Franck:
How Time Passes J. Sanfey:
Reality, and Those Who Perceive It M. Kafatos, S. Roy and M. Draganescu:
The Conscious Universe Chapter 2: Mathematical Approaches to the Concept of Time M. Saniga:
An Overview M. Saniga:
Geometry of Time and Dimensionality of Space J. D. H. Smith:
Time in Biology and Physics G. Jaroszkiewicz:
Analysis of the Relationship
Between Real and Imaginary Time in Physics M. Pavsic:
Clifford Algebra, Geometry and Physics C. Castro:
The Programs of the Extended Relativity
in C-Spaces: Towards Physical Foundations of String Theory M. Planat:
Time Measurements,
1/F Noise of the Oscillators and Algebraic Numbers I. Antoniou and Z. Suchanecki:
Internal Time and Innovation V. Di Gesù and G. M. Palma:
Quantum Computing: a Way to Break Complexity? V. V. Aristov
On the Relational Statistical Space-Time Concept D. B. Kucher and A. G. Shkorbatov:
Self-organization in Discrete Systems with Fermi-Type Memory Chapter 3: The Physicist's View of Time W. M. Stuckey:
An Overview R. M. Kiehn:
Thermodynamic Irreversibility and the Arrow of Time Z. Jacobson:
Time from Quantum Uncertainty G. Vitiello:
The Arrow of Time in Quantum Theories I. I. Shevchenko:
Conformal Time in Cosmology B. Lukács:
Acausality and Retrocausality
in Four- and Higher-Dimensional General Relativity F. Lobo and P. Crawford:
Time, Closed Timelike Curves and Causality A. C. Elitzur and S. Dolev:
Is There More to T? A. A. Chernitskii:
Global Causality in Space-Time Universe V. Dzhunushaliev:
Time at the Origin
of the Universe: Fluctuations Between two Possibilities J. S. Eakins:
Quantum Cellular Automata,
the EPR Paradox and the Stages Paradigm S. Roy:
Planck Scale Physics, Pregeometry and the Notion of Time W. M. Stuckey:
Causality as a Casualty of Pregeometry Chapter 4: Integrative Science's Views of Time R. Buccheri:
An Overview C. C. Evangeliou:
The Aristotelian Relation
of Time to Motion and to the Human Soul A. Grandpierre:
The Dynamics of Time and Timelessness:
Philosophy, Physics and Prospects for our Life F.-G. Winkler:
Spacetime Holism and the Passage of Time R. Buccheri:
The Intelligibility of Nature, the Endophysical Paradigm
and the Relationship Between Physical and Psychological Time G. Darvas:
Potential and Actual Time Concepts A. P. Levich:
Paradigms of Natural Science and Substantial Temporology Appendix G. Jaroszkiewicz:
Time Questionnaire Index