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).
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Meredith, G.P. (1972). The Psychophysical Structure of Temporal Information. In: Fraser, J.T., Haber, F.C., Müller, G.H. (eds) The Study of Time. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65387-2_18
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