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Time and Consciousness: Two Faces of One Mystery? [JCER 1(5)]
Gregory M Nixon, Steven Bindeman, Chris Nunn, Steve Deiss, Bill Adams, Ram L. Pandey Vimal, gordon globus
My Editorial for this issue functions as an abstract: "Time & Experience: Twins of the Eternal Now?" is located amongst my papers: http://unbc.academia.edu/GregoryNixon/Papers/247835/_Time_and_Experience_Twins_of_the_Eternal_Now_
2010 •
Gregory Nixon
Journal of Consciousness Exploration and Research
Special Relativity and Perception: The Singular Time of Psychology and Physics
2010 •
Stephen E Robbins
The Special Theory of Relativity (STR) holds sway as a theory of time due to its apparently successful predictive structure regarding time-related phenomena such as the increased life spans of mesons or retarded clocks on jets circling the globe, and due to the relativization of simultaneity intrinsic to this theoretical structure. Yet the very structure of the theory demands that such very real physical effects be construed as non-ontological. The scope and depth of this contradiction is explored and, if these time-changes are indeed viewed as ontological effects within STR, an additional problem for the theory is introduced in the context of perception. The origins of this confused situation arise as a result of the fact that STR is an expression of a classical, spatial metaphysic-a framework that equally underpins current discussions of the hard problem. This metaphysic holds an inadequate concept of time and a failure to acknowledge the reality of simultaneous causal flows. These problems are developed against the background of an alternative, namely, the temporal metaphysic of Bergson-a framework that provides a profoundly different base for viewing both relativity and consciousness.
Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research
Interactions among Minds/Brains: Individual Consciousness and Inter-subjectivity in Dual-Aspect Framework
2010 •
RamLakhan P Vimal
ISSN: 2153-8212 Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research Published by QuantumDream, Inc. ... Interactions among Minds/Brains: Individual Consciousness and ... Previously in (Vimal, 2010a), we argued that: (i) it is necessary to link experience and function aspect ...
2010 •
Gregory Nixon
Gregory M Nixon
Time's arrow is necessary for progress from a past that has already happened to a future that is only potential until creatively determined in the present. But time's arrow is unnecessary in Einstein's so-called block universe, so there is no creative unfolding in an actual present. How can there be an actual present when there is no universal moment of simultaneity? Events in various places will have different presents according to the position, velocity, and nature of the perceiver. Standing against this view is traditional common sense since we normally experience time's arrow as reality and the present as our place in the stream of consciousness, but we err to imagine we are living in the actual present. The present of our daily experience is actually a specious present, according to E. Robert Kelly (later popularized by William James), or duration, according to Henri Bergson, an habitus, as elucidated by Kerby (1991), or, simply, the psychological present (Adams...
Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research
Consciousness, Non-conscious Experiences and Functions, Proto-experiences and Proto-functions, and Subjective Experiences
2010 •
RamLakhan P Vimal
Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research
The Dawn of Higher Consciousness
2011 •
Maoxin Wu
The Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research
The TOTAL SIMULTANEITY INTERPRETATION
Wilhelmus de Wilde
I argue that Reality is an emergent phenomenon from Total Simultaneity (TS). This emergent phenomenon is to be strictly separated from its underlying structure TS. TS is a concept that can be localised behind the Planck units of space and time and is constituted as the totality of ALL possible emergent realities structured as probabilities (hidden variables). Time is a restriction of our emerged reality, so is space. As ALL time/life-lines of ALL probable (and for us improbable) realities are interconnected inside TS, our own experience of time and space is also interconnected with them through entangled partial consciousness. The what I call Point Zero is the point inside TS from where an agent’s emergent reality experience originates. Past and Future are created there through partial Consciousness. The so called “weird” quantum effects are explained this way. The reference of reference in our emerged reality is this partial consciousness: the I”. The “Splitting up” from the Many World Interpretation is becoming “Jumping towards” another Time/Life-line inside Total Simultaneity. ALL other “worlds” are already existing as probabilities inside TS. This explains the seemingly retro-causality in our emerged reality.
Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research
Foundation of Reality: Total Simultaneity
2012 •
Wilhelmus de Wilde
