Studies on the structure of time

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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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.

• algebraic geometry
• attention
• chaos
• cosmology
• geometry
• invariance
• perception
• quantum physics

• 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

Policies and ethics