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The psychophysical structure of temporal information
pp. 259-273
Abstract
As a concept for ordering and analysing real events with variable amounts of information "time" is much more complex than a simple clock-measure. Psychophysics has traditionally dealt with one-way processes from stimulus to sensation, creating information. In human action the reverse process occurs. The information in a plan of action anticipates the outcome. The latter is subject to uncertainties and the planned timing must be elastic, requiring a topological calculus for the relative timing of planned processes. Human actions can now have consequences of planetary orders of magnitude, giving unpredictable quantities in astronomical space-time, and local thawing in the frozen framework of The Minkowski continuum.Quotations are from "The Principle of Relativity" by Lorentz, Einstein, Minkowski and Weyl (1923 translation, Dover Edition).
Publication details
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Fraser J T, Haber Francis C., Müller Gert H (1972) The study of time: proceedings of the first conference of the international society for the study of time oberwolfach (black Forest) — West Losevy. Dordrecht, Springer.
Pages: 259-273
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-65387-2_18
Full citation:
(1972) „The psychophysical structure of temporal information“, In: J.T. Fraser, F. C. Haber & G.H. Müller (eds.), The study of time, Dordrecht, Springer, 259–273.