Adirectional temporal zones in quantum physics and brain physiology

Ruhnau, Eva; Pöppel, Ernst

doi:10.1007/bf00671487

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“…Why should one select the classical concept of time as a unifying principle if others and more advanced ones exist? Furthermore, it is important to stress that there is no concept of a “now” in physics ( Ruhnau and Pöppel, 1991 ); thus, a useful reference for a better understanding of psychological phenomena does not exist in physics.…”

Section: Diversity Of Temporal Experiences and Conceptsmentioning

confidence: 99%

In the jungle of time: the concept of identity as a way out

2014

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What could be a unifying principle for the manifold of temporal experiences: the simultaneity or temporal order of events, the subjective present, the duration of experiences, or the impression of a continuity of time? Furthermore, we time travel to the past visiting in imagination previous experiences in episodic memory, and we also time travel to the future anticipating actions or plans. For such time traveling we divide time into three domains: past, present, and future. What could be an escape out of this “jungle of time” characterized by many different perceptual and conceptual phenomena? The key concept we want to propose is “identity” which is derived from homeostasis as a fundamental biological principle. Within this conceptual frame two modes of identity are distinguished: individual or self-identity required because of homeostatic demands, and object-related identity necessary for the reliability and efficiency of neuro-cognitive processing. With this concept of self- and object-identity, the different temporal experiences can be conceptualized within a common frame. Thus, we propose a fundamental biological principle to conceptually unify temporal phenomena on the psychological level.

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Section: Diversity Of Temporal Experiences and Conceptsmentioning

confidence: 99%

In the jungle of time: the concept of identity as a way out

2014

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“…If, on the one hand, the now has to be extended, and, on the other hand, nowness cannot contain what is already past and what is yet just to come, time would have to be discrete. This may, as Ruhnau and Pöppel [25] have shown, in a certain sense be the case 16 . But the order of magnitude in this case is different from that of the duration of the now.…”

Section: The Geometry Of Tensementioning

confidence: 75%

“…By this preclusion, however, the time window would be compelled to progress leap-wise every three seconds. Since the edges of the time window are blurred such as those of the visual field, it may well be that it progresses step-wise in a pace of about 30 msec [2,25]. A leap-wise progression in the order of three seconds, however, contradicts not only introspective but also experimental evidence.…”

Section: The Geometry Of Tensementioning

confidence: 99%

Physical Time and Intrinsic Temporality

Franck¹

1994

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Physical theories distinguish two notions of time: reversible, homogeneous parameter time (relativity theory and quantum mechanics) and irreversible, directed time (thermodynamics). Both concepts differ fundamentally from what we define implicitly by using the tenses and temporal adverbs in language. The tempora past, present, and future hinge upon one uniquely exposed moment: the now. The now is the moment of actuality in the process of subjective awareness.It proceeds spontaneously and irresistibly in relation to all datable points of time.Without reference to the moving now, past and future only denote directions in time. But there is no physical definition of the now. Physical time, be it reversible or irreversible, differs from subjectively experienced time in that it is atemporal.Because physics has no notion of the now it cannot genuinely treat past and future as temporal regions. As a physicist, Einstein consistently declared the division of time into these regions as illusory. In the first two sections of this paper we reaffirm that Einstein was right on logical grounds. In the third section, however, we insist that the actuality of the now and its movement are truths that logical reason has not the power to question. In the fourth section we shall be looking for a clue to escape the dilemma. Physical TimeRelativity theory dispelled the notion of absolute simultaneity, which was inherent in the view of an objective, independently definable now. If Franck, Physical time & intinsic temporality 2/26 simultaneity is relative to the location of an observer, the now is relative to that location, too. Locations that are spatially distant or distinct with regard to relative motion will differ in time accordingly. If the now is the moment of actuality surrounded by regions of what is no more and not yet actual, locations that differ in time cannot belong to the same actual world. The world as actualized in the now is actual only in the realm of one and the same now.Unsynchronized nows unequivocally belong to different worlds. Thus, temporality splits the universe into as many worlds as there are locations possibly occupied by observers. Einstein's dictum states that this multitude is only subjective and illusory.Compared with this recent argument there is an age-old one giving rise to a similar conclusion. In the third century B.C., Zeno of Elea set out his riddles of motion which, after a long history of futile efforts to solve them, proved to originate in our notion of the now. Achilles cannot come abreast of the tortoise, the runner in the stadium cannot get started, the arrow must stand still in the air, because for any spatial distance to be traversed there is an infinity of subdistances to be passed. Since each distance, however small, can be subdivided without limit there is an infinity of acts, so the argument, necessary to overcome it. The duration of an infinite number of acts, irrespective of their lengths, always adds to eternity. Thus, motion is impossible.Zeno's paradoxes deal with a c...

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“…E. Pöppel and E. Ruhnau explained the mechanism through which the correlation and integration of streams of visual and auditory information is accomplished. Their explanation rested on their conception of atemporal zones, or windows of simultaneity, similar to Varela's conception of frame as a 'perceptive time quantum' (Ruhnau and Pöppel 1991;Pöppel 1997).…”

Section: Perceptive Framementioning

confidence: 98%

Time Scales of Observation and Ontological Levels of Reality

Alyushin

2010

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My goal is to conceive how the reality would look like for hypothetical creatures that supposedly perceive on time scales much faster or much slower than that of us humans. To attain the goal, I propose modelling in two steps. At step one, we have to single out a unified parameter that sets time scale of perception. Changing substantially the value of the parameter would mean changing scale. I argue that the required parameter is duration of discrete perceptive frames, or snapshots, whose sequencing constitutes perceptive process. I show that different standard durations of perceptive frames is the ground for differences in perceptive time scales of various animals. Abnormally changed duration of perceptive frames is the cause of the effect of distorted subjective time observed by humans under some conditions. Now comes step two of the modelling. By inserting some arbitrary duration of a perceptive frame, we set a hypothetical scale and thus emulate a viewpoint for virtual observation of the reality in a wider or narrower angle of embracing events in time. Like changing lenses of a microscope, viewing reality in different temporal scales makes certain features of reality manifested, others veiled. These are, in particular, features of life. If we observe an object in an inappropriate interval, we may not notice the very essence of a process it is undergoing.

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Adirectional temporal zones in quantum physics and brain physiology

Cited by 47 publications

References 14 publications

In the jungle of time: the concept of identity as a way out

In the jungle of time: the concept of identity as a way out

Physical Time and Intrinsic Temporality

Time Scales of Observation and Ontological Levels of Reality

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