Jimena Canales, The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson and the Debate that Changed our Understanding of Time

Kilakos, Dimitris

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“…‘ Il n'y a donc pas un temps des philosophes ’ – ‘the time of the philosophers does not exist’ – was the momentous blow Einstein dealt Bergson in 1922 (Canales 2015:5) just after photographs of a solar eclipse had offered empirical proof of time's relativity. For Einstein, only the new time of physics was objective and real, and he might as well have claimed life itself was an illusion.…”

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Water's Ethical Time: The Art of Deindustrialising Human‐Water Relationships

Eickelkamp

2023

Oceania

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I explore by way of a thought experiment the temporality of waterways in the context of restorative art interventions. As a substance that moves and gives form, and as a medium that retains and discharges, connects and divides, water that flows can make tangible the experiential flow of return and anticipation. Arguably, this bi‐directional structuring of time is pivotal to transformative and reparative action. If restoration means ‘going back’ to memories of ecologies and places, it does so with a generative thrust forward. This is the life‐enabling orientation of recuperation that I discern connects diverse phenomenological concepts: Deborah Bird Rose's ‘multispecies knots of ethical time’, the idea of ‘afterness’ as developed by Gerhard Richter, Gaston Bachelard's ‘rhythmic time’, and Gerald Vizenor's ‘survivance’. I bring these concepts to: (a) artistic water restoration projects that make imaginable, palpable, and real sustainable human‐water relationships, with a focus on the public works in Sydney by Turpin + Crawford Studio; (b) perspectives on water and time that Australian Indigenous thinkers have shared during my ethnographic research; and (c) the re‐naturalization of a river in Germany's postindustrial Ruhr region. I propose that thinking with water ethically and recognizing its temporal diversity opens up perspectives on the deindustrialisation of rivers and other bodies of water.

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Water's Ethical Time: The Art of Deindustrialising Human‐Water Relationships

Eickelkamp

2023

Oceania

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“…Newton's book in 1687 was entitled Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy [131], which emphasized the importance of philosophy in scientific research. Einstein also indicated that he should be regarded as a philosopher first [132,133]. Guided by philosophy, both founders of modern science identified illusions in their fields while establishing ground-breaking theories.…”

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Novel Data Analyses Address the African Enigma and Controversies Surrounding the Roles of <i>Helicobacter pylori</i> in Peptic Ulcers <strong> </strong>

Dong¹

2023

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Currently, peptic ulcers are widely considered an infectious disease caused by Helicobacter pylori due to 3 supporting evidences, and this etiology may explain 3 other observations. However, it cannot withstand the challenges of all the 15 major characteristics and the other 75 observations/phenomena of peptic ulcers. To address these challenges, a recently published Complex Causal Relationship with its accompanying methodologies was applied to analyze the existing data. Peptic ulcers are identified as a psychosomatic disease triggered by psychological stress, where Helicobacter pylori plays a secondary role in the late phase of ulceration. This new etiology addresses all the characteristics, observations/phenomena, controversies, and mysteries of peptic ulcers in a series of 6 articles. This sixth article focuses on the controversies associated with Helicobacter pylori. In-depth analyses find that all the 3 supporting evidences are illusions, and all the 3 explainable observations are misinterpreted, indicating that none of the 15 characteristics and 81 observations/phenomena of peptic ulcers can be elucidated by the etiology based on Helicobacter pylori. Moreover, the definitions of ‘etiological factor’, controversies on H. pylori, epidemiological studies, characteristics of the disease, and historical observations suggest ‘peptic ulcers are an infectious disease caused by Helicobacter pylori’ is an illusion and thus, the African enigma, a mystery derived from the illusion, does not exist. Similar illusions widely exist in medical research, resulting in direct interference with the true understanding of diseases. A full understanding of the pathogenesis of peptic ulcers highlights the guiding role of philosophy in life science and medical research.

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“…Based on the Newtonian mechanistic physics of repetition without change, clock-time separates human experience from the complex temporal processes of life (Adam, 1998;Bastian, 2012). This effect has incalculable ramifications according to Nobel Prize winning physicist Prigogine (1997Prigogine ( , 2014, including disappearing life itself (Canales, 2015;Stanner, 2011). New conceptual tools are needed (Adam, 2006;Alhadeff-Jones, 2017Bastian, 2012), with purposeful temporal design (Bastian, 2016;Pschetz and Bastian, 2017;Pschetz et al, 2016).…”

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Teaching complex time through pattern thinking and understanding

Brown

2023

Time & Society

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To move beyond its industrial era mechanistic paradigm, western education needs to include knowledges that enable students to think with and engage an increasingly complex world. The teaching and learning of complex time is one such knowledge, and pattern thinking and understanding are useful for this undertaking. As part of their teaching practice, the author developed and implemented a patterns-based design and educational strategy called spiraltime patterning with secondary school students more than a decade ago. Recently, the approach was implemented with university students as part of a doctoral inquiry project that focused on general complexity thinking and understanding. Spiraltime patterning is designed to perturb the dominance of linear temporalities and reposition them within a multitemporal patterning of complex time. The broad aim of this work is to contribute to transformational education, by facilitating temporal coherence and wellbeing for students, through embodied understanding of time as a complex phenomenon.

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Jimena Canales, The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson and the Debate that Changed our Understanding of Time

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Water's Ethical Time: The Art of Deindustrialising Human‐Water Relationships

Water's Ethical Time: The Art of Deindustrialising Human‐Water Relationships

Novel Data Analyses Address the African Enigma and Controversies Surrounding the Roles of <i>Helicobacter pylori</i> in Peptic Ulcers <strong> </strong>

Teaching complex time through pattern thinking and understanding

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