Simultaneity: Temporal Structures and Observer Perspectives - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9812792414 ISBN 13: 9789812792419

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing, 2008

Synopsis

This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to the question of how observerparticipant perspectives are generated, what constrains them and how they may be modified. These questions are of vital importance and must be addressed in any discipline before formulating a hypothesis or designing a model about reality. Both epistemological questions about the nature of temporal nested structures and practical applications of our ability to contextualize are discussed. The resulting temporal observerparticipant perspectives reflect approaches to the concept of simultaneity from the viewpoints of philosophers, logicians, cyberneticists and systems theorists, mathematicians, psychologists, medical practitioners, physicists, educationists, economists and musicologists. Although the main focus is on the cognitive sciences, as constraints to observer perspectives arise primarily from this field, the book will appeal to researchers of all disciplines and interested layman readers.

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very helpful for any scientist, whether young or experienced, who works in fields dealing with the phenomenon of emergence -- Sifis Micheloyannis, MD "University of Crete, Greece"

Edition details

• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 9812792414
• ISBN 13: 9789812792419
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 492
• Editor: Susie Vrobel, Terry Marks-Tarlow, Otto E. Rossler