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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| 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 |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 297 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789814295987 9814295981 |