0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Browse All Departments
  • All Departments
Price
  • R2,500 - R5,000 (1)
  • -
Status
Brand

Showing 1 - 1 of 1 matches in All Departments

Inside Versus Outside - Endo- and Exo-Concepts of Observation and Knowledge in Physics, Philosophy and Cognitive Science... Inside Versus Outside - Endo- and Exo-Concepts of Observation and Knowledge in Physics, Philosophy and Cognitive Science (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994)
Harald Atmanspacher, Gerhard J. Dalenoort
R2,689 Discovery Miles 26 890 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In our daily lives we conceive of our surroundings as an objectively given reality. The world is perceived through our senses, and ~hese provide us, so we believe, with a faithful image of the world. But occ~ipnally we are forced to realize that our senses deceive us, e. g. , by illusions. For a while it was believed that the sensation of color is directly r~lated to the frequency of light waves, until E. Land (the inventor of the polaroid camera) showed in detailed experiments that our perception of, say, a colored spot depends on the colors of its surrounding. On the other hand, we may experience hallucinations or dreams as real. Quite evidently, the relationship between the "world" and our "brain" is intricate. Another strange problem is the way in which we perceive time or the "Now". Psychophysical experiments tell us that the psychological "Now" is an extended period of time in the sense of physics. The situation was made still more puzzling when, in the nineteen-twenties, Heisenberg and others realized that, by observing processes in the microscopic world of electrons and other elementary particles, we strongly interfere with that world. The outcome of experiments - at least in general - can only be predicted statistically. What is the nature ofthis strange relationship between "object" and "observer"? This is another crucial problem of the inside-outside or endo-exo dichotomy.

Free Delivery
Pinterest Twitter Facebook Google+
You may like...
Comics - A Global History, 1968 to the…
Dan Mazur, Alexander Danner Paperback  (1)
R685 R541 Discovery Miles 5 410
Portuguese Dialogues for Beginners Book…
Learn Like A Native Hardcover R700 R614 Discovery Miles 6 140
Compounding in Modern Greek
Angela Ralli Hardcover R3,679 R3,419 Discovery Miles 34 190
Differential Equations with…
Dennis Zill Paperback R1,345 R1,252 Discovery Miles 12 520
The Oxford Handbook of Information…
Caroline Fery, Shinichiro Ishihara Hardcover R4,569 Discovery Miles 45 690
Experimental Statistical Designs and…
Chu-Hua Kuei, Christian Madu Hardcover R2,534 Discovery Miles 25 340
Babalela Boekpak
Martie Preller Paperback R470 R440 Discovery Miles 4 400
Parrot A3 Single Mitred Poster Frame…
R332 R261 Discovery Miles 2 610
Press Handle Attachment For Drill Press…
Differential Equations with Linear…
Matthew R. Boelkins, Jack L. Goldberg, … Hardcover R2,869 Discovery Miles 28 690

 

Partners