Physics and the Ultimate Significance of Time: Bohm, Prigogine, and Process PhilosophyDavid Ray Griffin State University of New York Press, 15.11.1985 - 338 Seiten Physics and the Ultimate Significance of Time challenges the conventional view of the nature of time. The dominant twentieth-century view, supported by Einstein and many of the founders of quantum theory, implies that time is ultimately unreal. Several new schools of thought reject the notion that physics is temporally symmetrical, and that time could just as easily run backwards. Combating this conventional view of time, this book offers three new viewpoints and explores their apparent differences. Nobel prize winner Ilya Prigogine argues that irreversibility and asymmetry are more fundamental than reversibility and symmetry. David Bohm notes that while conventional notions about physics and the worldview it suggests have been based upon exclusive attention to the 'explicate order,' quite another view results when primary attention is focused on the 'implicate order.' And the growing school of process philosophy based on Alfred North Whitehead's work holds that irreversible temporal relations characterize the most 'elementary' components of the world, implying the heretical view that time exists for a single electron or atom. |
Inhalt
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Evolutionary Epistemology | 51 |
Dynamic Asymmetrical Internal | 81 |
Time in the Earlier and Later Whitehead | 87 |
Contemporaneity Knowledge | 110 |
Whiteheads Later View on Space | 122 |
Bohm and Time | 154 |
Bohm and Process Philosophy | 167 |
Implicate Order | 231 |
FarfromEquilibrium | 251 |
Einstein Time and Process Time | 264 |
Process Time and Static Time | 271 |
Physics and Metaphysics Henry | 278 |
Comments on Henry Stapps Einstein | 289 |
The Unreality and Indeterminacy of | 297 |
On the Ultimate Significance of Time | 309 |
Time the Implicate Order and PreSpace | 177 |
Time and HigherOrder Wholeness | 219 |
Notes on Contributors | 318 |
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abstract actual occasions algebraic asymmetry atomic basic becoming Bell's theorem Bergson biological Bohm Bohm's Čapek causal efficacy classical concept concrescence concrete consciousness contemporary context corresponding creative David Bohm determinate deterministic dimension discussion dissipative systems distinction dualism durational succession dynamic Einstein enfolded entities entropy evolutionary example existence explicate extensive continuum external feature formal four-dimensional fundamental future hence holomovement idea Ilya Prigogine implicate order interaction internal relations interpretation irreversibility kind knowledge laws logical mathematical meaning metaphysical Milič mind mnemic modern physics nature notion objective observer ontological particles past physicists possible potential prehensive present Prigogine Prigogine's principle problem Process and Reality process philosophy quantum mechanics quantum theory question relationship relativity theory S-matrix scientific sense space space-time spatial Spencer's Stapp structure suggests temporal theory of relativity thermodynamics things thought timeless transformation ultimate universe vision Whitehead Whiteheadian whole York