Free will: A case study in reconciling phenomenological philosophy with reductionist sciences

Hong, Felix T.

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“…The observation that listening to Mozart's music enhances the reasoning skills of students [15] contributed to the ever-expanding circle of research interest centered on the possible complexity matching between Mozart's music and brain function. This is a throny problem having aspects of a number of fundamental human issues, including but not limited to creativity, free will, determinism and randomness [16]. Our purpose here is to present a mathematical theory that explains these interesting aspects of music, which picks up where the above mentioned popular works leave off.…”

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Complexity measures of music

Pease

Mahmoodi

West

2018

Chaos, Solitons & Fractals

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We present a technique to search for the presence of crucial events in music, based on the analysis of the music volume. Earlier work on this issue was based on the assumption that crucial events correspond to the change of music notes, with the interesting result that the complexity index of the crucial events is µ ≈ 2, which is the same inverse power-law index of the dynamics of the brain. The search technique analyzes music volume and confirms the results of the earlier work, thereby contributing to the explaination as to why the brain is sensitive to music, through the phenomenon of complexity matching. Complexity matching has recently been interpreted as the transfer of multifractality from one complex network to another. For this reason we also examine the mulifractality of music, with the observation that the multifractal spectrum of a computer performance is significantly narrower than the multifractal spectrum of a human performance of the same musical score. We conjecture that although crucial events are demonstrably important for information transmission, they alone are not sufficient to define musicality, which is more adequately measured by the multifractality spectrum.

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Mahmoodi

West

2018

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“…There is no final resolution in the favor of one or the other. It is a dynamic, dialectic unity of opposites, akin to the discourse about free will and its relations to upward and downward causation discussed by Felix Hong in the complement to this special issue (Hong, 2015) and its predecessor article on the role of pattern recognition in scientific research (Hong, 2013). We know more if we accept both viewpoints for what they are and look for their synergies.…”

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Yet another time about time … Part I: An essay on the phenomenology of physical time

Simeonov¹

2015

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology

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This paper presents yet another personal reflection on one the most important concepts in both science and the humanities: time. This elusive notion has been not only bothering philosophers since Plato and Aristotle. It goes throughout human history embracing all analytical and creative (anthropocentric) disciplines. Time has been a central theme in physical and life sciences, philosophy, psychology, music, art and many more. This theme is known with a vast body of knowledge across different theories and categories. What has been explored concerns its nature (rational, irrational, arational), appearances/qualia, degrees, dimensions and scales of conceptualization (internal, external, fractal, discrete, continuous, mechanical, quantum, local, global, etc.). Of particular interest have been parameters of time such as duration ranges, resolutions, modes (present, now, past, future), varieties of tenses (e.g. present perfect, present progressive, etc.) and some intuitive, but also fancy phenomenological characteristics such as "arrow", "stream", "texture", "width", "depth", "density", even "scent". Perhaps the most distinct characteristic of this fundamental concept is the absolute time constituting the flow of consciousness according to Husserl, the reflection of pure (human) nature without having the distinction between exo and endo. This essay is a personal reflection upon time in modern physics and phenomenological philosophy.Keywords: space, time, consciousness, physics, mathematics, philosophy, phenomenology. ___________________________________________________________________ PrologueSpace and time are particularly modalities of human consciousness. Whereas space can be realized through our eyes and limbs, time remains elusive to our minds and still bothers philosophers since antiquity (Dyke & Bardon, 2013). In the beginning of the 20 th century science made a crucial switchover. Time was spatialized 1 . Until then the world was threedimensional. With the Special Relativity Theory (Einstein, 1905;Minkowski, 1909) the concept of time became the fourth dimension 2 and an integral element of the new physical worldview. It caused confusion among many of Einstein's contemporaries, and not only with its relativistic dilation in the well-known equation with the speed of light ť = t (1-(v/c) 2 ) ½ .1 It could be argued that time was spatialized earlier. Though time and space were separate for Newton (something that Einstein challenged), the clock time he assumed was laid out like space and was devoid of the dynamism of Bergsonian durée, (Bergson, 1912;Čapek, 1961). 2 It was Laplace who treated time as just another dimension equivalent to space, and thereby paved the way for the development of relativity theory as it came to be understood (but not as Čapek, following Bergson, understood it).This notion of relativistic time appeared wrong and unnatural, not without good reason, since:• Time is ineffable, eluding science and mathematics: it can only be grasped through intuition and shown indirectly and partia...

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Increasing Farmers 'Income Through Market Farmers And Information At Barru Regency

Herman¹,

Ibrahim²

2018

Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Social Sciences (ICSS 2018)

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Free will: A case study in reconciling phenomenological philosophy with reductionist sciences

Cited by 3 publications

References 166 publications

Complexity measures of music

Complexity measures of music

Yet another time about time … Part I: An essay on the phenomenology of physical time

Increasing Farmers 'Income Through Market Farmers And Information At Barru Regency

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