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