Knowledge And Time 1st Ed. 2017

This is a unique volume by a unique scientist, which combines conceptual, formal, and engineering approaches in a way that is rarely seen. Its core is the relation between ways of learning and knowing on the one hand and different modes of time on the other. Partial Boolean logic and the associated notion of complementarity are used to express this relation, and mathematical tools of fundamental physics are used to formalize it. Along the way many central philosophical problems are touched and addressed, above all the mind-body problem. Completed only shortly before the death of the author, the text has been edited and annotated by the author's close collaborator Harald Atmanspacher. Front Matter....Pages I-XV Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Introduction....Pages 3-10 Boolean Descriptions....Pages 11-21 Non-Boolean Descriptions....Pages 23-52 Rationality and Creativity....Pages 53-72 Modes of Knowing in Mathematics....Pages 73-89 Bottom-Up Approaches in Physics....Pages 91-153 Top-Down Approaches in Physics....Pages 155-181 Front Matter....Pages 183-183 Matter, Mind, and Time....Pages 185-210 Temporal Groups and Algebras....Pages 211-241 Representations of Temporal Groups and Semigroups....Pages 243-277 Complementary Temporal Descriptions....Pages 279-308 The Relevance of Sequential Time....Pages 309-351 The Relevance of Non-Sequential Time....Pages 353-360 Back Matter....Pages 361-427