The Nature of Time: Geometry, Physics and Perception

1: Internal Times and Consciousness.- An Overview.- The Human Sense of Time: Biological, Cognitive and Cultural Considerations.- The Parallel-Clock Model: a Tool for Quantification of Experienced Duration.- Time in the Cognitive Process of Humans.- Studying Psychological Time with Weber’s Law.- Time and the Problem of Consciousness.- Temporal Displacement.- Discrimination and Sequentialization of Events in Perception.- Time, Consciousness and Quantum Events in Fundamental Spacetime Geometry.- How Time Passes.- Reality, and Those Who Perceive It.- The Conscious Universe.- 2: Mathematical Approaches to the Concept of Time.- An Overview.- Geometry of Time and Dimensionality of Space.- Time in Biology and Physics.- Analysis of the Relationship Between Real and Imaginary Time in Physics.- Clifford Algebra, Geometry and Physics.- The Programs of the Extended Relativity in C-Spaces: Towards Physical Foundations of String Theory.- Time Measurements, 1/F Noise of the Oscillators and Algebraic Numbers.- Internal Time and Innovation.- Quantum Computing: a Way to Break Complexity?.- On the Relational Statistical Space-Time Concept.- Self-organization in Discrete Systems with Fermi-Type Memory.- 3: The Physicist’s View of Time.- An Overview.- Thermodynamic Irreversibility and the Arrow of Time.- Time from Quantum Uncertainty.- The Arrow of Time in Quantum Theories.- Conformai Time in Cosmology.- Acausality and Retrocausality in Four- and Higher-Dimensional General Relativity.- Time, Closed Timelike Curves and Causality.- Is There More to T?.- Global Causality in Space- Time Universe.- Time at the Origin of the Universe: Fluctuations Between two Possibilities.- Quantum Cellular Automata, the EPR Paradox and the Stages Paradigm.- Planck Scale Physics, Pregeom,etry and the Notionof Time.- Causality as a Casualty of Pregeometry.- 4: Integrative Science’s Views of Time.- An Overview.- The Aristotelian Relation of Time to Motion and to the Human Soul.- The Dynamics of Time and Timelessness: Philosophy, Physics and Prospects for our Life.- Spacetime Holism and the Passage of Time.- The Intelligibility of Nature, the Endophysical Paradigm and the Relationship Between Physical and Psychological Time.- Potential and Actual Time Concepts.- Paradigms of Natural Science and Substantial Temporology.- Time Questionnaire.