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Time, Temporality, Now

Experiencing Time and Concepts of Time in an Interdisciplinary Perspective

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  • © 1997

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Editors:
  1. Harald Atmanspacher

    1. Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Garching, Germany

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  2. Eva Ruhnau

    1. Institut für med. Psychologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
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  2. Introductory Remarks

    1. Introductory Remarks

      • Harald Atmanspacher, Eva Ruhnau
      Pages 1-4

  3. Natural Philosophy of Time

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
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    2. Theory and Experience of Time: Philosophical Aspects

      • Frederick M. Kronz
      Pages 7-22

    3. Whitehead’s Theory of Perception

      • Joachim Klose
      Pages 23-42

    4. Delayed-Choice Experiments and the Concept of Time in Quantum Mechanics

      • Shimon Malin
      Pages 43-52

    5. The Deconstruction of Time and the Emergence of Temporality

      • Eva Ruhnau
      Pages 53-69

    6. Self-Reference and Time According to Spencer-Brown

      • Andreas Kull
      Pages 71-79

    7. Time and Information

      • Holger Lyre
      Pages 81-89

    8. Time — Empirical Mathematics — Quantum Theory

      • Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
      Pages 91-104

  4. Cognition and Time

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
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    2. The Brain’s Way to Create “Nowness”

      • Ernst Pöppel
      Pages 107-120

    3. Temporal Integration of the Brain as Studied with the Metronome Paradigm

      • Elzbieta Szelag
      Pages 121-131

    4. Neurophysiological Relevance of Time

      • Andreas K. Engel, Pieter R. Roelfsema, Peter König, Wolf Singer
      Pages 133-157

    5. Sensations of Temporality: Models and Metaphors from Acoustic Perception

      • Manfred Euler
      Pages 159-178

    6. Cognitive Aspects of the Representation of Time

      • Gerhard J. Dalenoort
      Pages 179-188

  5. Relativity and Gravity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189
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    2. Concepts of Time in Classical Physics

      • Jürgen Ehlers
      Pages 191-200

    3. Nows Are All We Need

      • Julian B. Barbour
      Pages 201-216

    4. The Quantum Gauge Principle

      • Dirk Graudenz
      Pages 217-226
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About this book

The essays in this topical volume inquire into one of the most fundamental issues of philosophy and of the cognitive and natural sciences: the riddle of time. The central feature is the tension between the experience and the conceptualization of time, reflecting an apparently unavoidable antinomy of subjective first-person accounts and objective traditional science. Is time based in the physics of inanimate matter, or does it originate in the operation of our minds? Is it essential for the constitution of reality, or is it just an illusion? Issues of time, temporality, and nowness are paradigms for interdisciplinary work in many contemporary fields of research. The authors of this volume discuss profoundly the mutual relationships and inspiring perspectives. They address a general audience.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Garching, Germany

    Harald Atmanspacher

  • Institut für med. Psychologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany

    Eva Ruhnau

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