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This year, the Institute for Fractal Research celebrates its 10th anniversary. To mark the occasion, we shall publish a selection of papers in a festschrift entitled Simultaneity: Temporal Structures and Observer Perspectives. Topics include generating and disentangling simultaneous contrasts, the structure of the Now, simultaneous measuring, simultaneity vs. succession, temporal observer perspectives, endo- and exo-perspectives, contextualization, synchronization, nested and embedded structures, nesting and de-nesting, self-referential systems, embodied cognition, multidimensional and fractal time.
As this publication is intended to be of an interdisciplinary nature, we have invited scientists from the fields of philosophy, psychology, medicine, physics, economics, logics, linguistics, education and the neuro-sciences to contribute an article. The book is published by World Scientific (Spring 2008). Order your copy now.
Table of Contents

Part I
Observer Perspectives: Epistemological Background

Susie Vrobel: Fractal Time: Extended Observer Perspectives

Otto E. Rössler: Mirror Neurons: Evidence for the Great Simulator and Vrobelism

Michael E. Luetchford: The Concept of Now in Dogen's Philosophy

Franz-Günter Winkler: Systems and Observers from a Holistic Viewpoint

Nikolaus von Stillfried: A Systems-Theoretical Generalization of Non-Local Correlations

Uri Fidelman: Brain Time and Physical Time


Part II
Identifying Temporal Observer Perspectives

Gerald L. Clore: Simultaneity in Emotional Moments

Hinderk M. Emrich, Catharina Bonnemann and Detlef Dietrich: On Time Experience in Depression

Hans J. Markowitsch and Martina Piefke: Contextualization: Memory Formation and Retrieval in a Nested Environment

Peter M. Allen: Complexity and Emergent Structure

Jerry LR Chandler: Ordinate Logics of Living Systems

Martin F. Gardiner: Learning Skill, Brain Engagement, Context and the Arts

Terry Marks-Tarlow: Utilizing Fractal Time


Part III
Disentangling Temporal Simultaneous Contrasts

Laurent Nottale and Pierre Timar: Relativity of Scale: Application of an Endo-Perspective to Temporal Structures

Bill Seaman: Unpacking Simultaneity for Differing Observer Perspectives and Qualities of ENvironment

Dieter de Grave: Circumcising the Void: (De-)Contextualizing in Complex Lacanian Psychoanalysis

Serge F. Timashev & Yuriy S. Polyakov: A Review of Flicker-Noise Spectroscopy: Information in Chaotic Signals

Raymond Pavloski: Hidden Perspectives in Emergent Structures Produced by Neural Networks

Michail Zak: Modeling Common-Sense Decisions


Part IV
Synchronization

Fabian Ramseyer and Wolfgang Tschacher: Synchrony in Dyadic Psychotherapy Sessions

Gerold Baier & Thomas Hermann: Temporal Perspective from Auditory Perception

Christian Tschinkel: Perception of Simultaneous Auditive Contents

Gus Koehler: Computer Simulations as Hidden Time Ecologies

Artur P. Schmidt and Otto E. Rössler: How to Prevent the Market from Overheating

Artur P. Schmidt and Otto E. Rössler: Leveraging the Future - Existence of a New Endo-Reality in Economics

Artur P. Schmidt and Otto E. Rössler: Endonomics: Looking Behind the Economic Curtain

Uwe Kämpf: Possible Quantum Absorber Effects in Cortical Synchronization

Otto van Nieuwenhuijze: Time and Timing in our Body and Life