ENGLISH

Direction of time

Book information

Publisher
Springer
ISBN
9783319027975, 9783319027982, 3319027972, 3319027980
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2476499 bytes)
Edition
First edition
Pages
315 pages: illustrations\315
Time added
2020-11-29 04:13:43

Description

This edited book presents the problems of time and direction from an interdisciplinary point of view, concentrating in particular on the following relations: Time and physics Time, philosophy and psychology Time, mathematics and information theory It is a unique contribution by philosophers and scientists who are active in mathematics, physics, biology, engineering, information theory and psychology. Questions such as the existence of a Big Bang, the neurobiological basis regarding the coexistence of free will and determinism, intercultural aspects of time, mathematical models of time, psychopathological features of time, and micro reversibility versus macroscopic irreversibility are studied. It also provides a truly interdisciplinary study of the problematic 'arrow of time'.

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