Primas H. Knowledge and Time

Springer International Publishing AG, 2017. — 431 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-47369-7.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.Boolean Descriptions
Non-Boolean Descriptions
Rationality and Creativity
Modes of Knowing in Mathematics
Bottom-Up Approaches in Physics
Top-Down Approaches in Physics
Matter, Mind, and Time
Temporal Groups and Algebras
Representations of Temporal Groups and Semigroups
Complementary Temporal Descriptions
The Relevance of Sequential Time
The Relevance of Non-Sequential Time