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Fractal Time: Why A Watched Kettle Never Boils (Hardcover)
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Fractal Time: Why A Watched Kettle Never Boils (Hardcover)
Series: Studies Of Nonlinear Phenomena In Life Science, 14
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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 of content and contexts in two dimensions: the length
and the depth of time. The leitmotif of the book is the notion of
simultaneity, which determines the temporal structure of our
interfaces. Recent research results are described which present and
discuss a number of distorted temporal perspectives. It is
suggested that dynamical diseases arise from unsuccessful nesting
attempts, i.e. from failed contextualization. Successful nesting,
by contrast, manifests itself in a "win-win handshake" between the
observer-participant and his chosen context. The answer as to why a
watched kettle never boils has repercussions in many a discipline.
It would be of immense interest to anyone who works in the fields
of cognitive and complexity sciences, psychology and the
neurosciences, social medicine, philosophy and the arts.
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