Pragmatic phenomenological types

Goranson, H. T.; Cardier, Beth; Devlin, Keith

doi:10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2015.07.006

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“…Prospection is an intentional process to select and evaluate long-term scenarios for the future (while protention just indicates an opening toward the future, a "disposition for action" (Varela, 1999)). The construction of scenarios can be compared to the construction of narratives in (Goranson,& al., 2015).…”

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Conciliating neuroscience and phenomenology via category theory

Ehresmann

Gómez-Ramírez

2015

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology

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Conciliating neuroscience and phenomenology via category theory

Ehresmann

Gómez-Ramírez

2015

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology

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“…Signals for involving an introspective view on the creation of the universe can be recognized in (Barad, 2007), (Yardley, 2010) and (Josephson, 2015b). It is possibly worth venturing a contrasting juxtaposition of the articles in the following section of this special issue dedicated to mathematical and computational phenomenology (Hipólito, 2015;Kauffman, 2015;Ehresmann & Gomez-Ramirez, 2015;Marchal, 2015;Goranson et al, 2015), as well as their precursors in the 2013 special issue on Integral Biomathics (Goranson & Cardier, 2013;Marchal, 2013 (Longo et al, 2012). They argue that the evolutionary phase space or space of possibilities constituted of interactions between organisms, biological niches and ecosystems is "ever changing, intrinsically indeterminate and even (mathematically) unprestatable".…”

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Yet another time about time … Part I: An essay on the phenomenology of physical time

Simeonov¹

2015

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology

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This paper presents yet another personal reflection on one the most important concepts in both science and the humanities: time. This elusive notion has been not only bothering philosophers since Plato and Aristotle. It goes throughout human history embracing all analytical and creative (anthropocentric) disciplines. Time has been a central theme in physical and life sciences, philosophy, psychology, music, art and many more. This theme is known with a vast body of knowledge across different theories and categories. What has been explored concerns its nature (rational, irrational, arational), appearances/qualia, degrees, dimensions and scales of conceptualization (internal, external, fractal, discrete, continuous, mechanical, quantum, local, global, etc.). Of particular interest have been parameters of time such as duration ranges, resolutions, modes (present, now, past, future), varieties of tenses (e.g. present perfect, present progressive, etc.) and some intuitive, but also fancy phenomenological characteristics such as "arrow", "stream", "texture", "width", "depth", "density", even "scent". Perhaps the most distinct characteristic of this fundamental concept is the absolute time constituting the flow of consciousness according to Husserl, the reflection of pure (human) nature without having the distinction between exo and endo. This essay is a personal reflection upon time in modern physics and phenomenological philosophy.Keywords: space, time, consciousness, physics, mathematics, philosophy, phenomenology. ___________________________________________________________________ PrologueSpace and time are particularly modalities of human consciousness. Whereas space can be realized through our eyes and limbs, time remains elusive to our minds and still bothers philosophers since antiquity (Dyke & Bardon, 2013). In the beginning of the 20 th century science made a crucial switchover. Time was spatialized 1 . Until then the world was threedimensional. With the Special Relativity Theory (Einstein, 1905;Minkowski, 1909) the concept of time became the fourth dimension 2 and an integral element of the new physical worldview. It caused confusion among many of Einstein's contemporaries, and not only with its relativistic dilation in the well-known equation with the speed of light ť = t (1-(v/c) 2 ) ½ .1 It could be argued that time was spatialized earlier. Though time and space were separate for Newton (something that Einstein challenged), the clock time he assumed was laid out like space and was devoid of the dynamism of Bergsonian durée, (Bergson, 1912;Čapek, 1961). 2 It was Laplace who treated time as just another dimension equivalent to space, and thereby paved the way for the development of relativity theory as it came to be understood (but not as Čapek, following Bergson, understood it).This notion of relativistic time appeared wrong and unnatural, not without good reason, since:• Time is ineffable, eluding science and mathematics: it can only be grasped through intuition and shown indirectly and partia...

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