Beschreibung:
The current volume of the Parmenides Series "On Thinking" addresses our deepest and most personal experience of the world, the experience of "the present," from a modern perspective combining physics and philosophy. Many prominent researchers have contributed articles to the volume, in which they present models and express their opinions on and, in some cases, also their skepticism about the subject and how it may be (or may not be) addressed, as well as which aspects they consider most relevant in this context.
The Forgotten Present.- Autogenetic Network Theory.- Relational Events and the Conflict Between Relativity and the Collapse.- Relativistic Interactions and the Structure of Time.- Instants in Physics - Point Mechanics and General Relativity.- Irreversibility and Collapse Models.- Time and the Algebraic Theory of Moments.- The Problem of Time and the Problem of Quantum Measurement.- Classical and Quantum Probability: The two Logics of Science.- Present and Future in Quantum Mechanics.- Quantum Physics and Presentism.- Now, Factuality and Conditio Humana.