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Fractal time : why a watched kettle never boils /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Jersey :
World Scientific,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Studies of nonlinear phenomena in life sciences ;
v. 14. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 520 | |a 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 o. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1 When Time Slows Down: Subjective Duration; Chapter 2 The Fractal Structure of the Now: Time's Length, Depth and Density; Chapter 3 Fractal Temporal Perspectives: Corrective Distortions; Chapter 4 The View from Within: Extended Boundaries; Chapter 5 Contextualization: Embedded Observer-Participants; Chapter 6 Temporal Binding: Synchronizing Perceptions; Chapter 7 Nesting vs Global and Local Perspectives; Chapter 8 Duration: Distributing Content and Context; Chapter 9 Modifying Duration I: Nesting and De-Nesting. | |
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