Knowledge and Time
This is a unique volume by a unique scientist, which combines conceptual, formal, and engineering approaches in a way that is rarely seen. Its core is the relation between ways of learning and knowing on the one hand and different modes of time on the oth
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Knowledge and Time Harald Atmanspacher Editor
Knowledge and Time
Hans Primas
Knowledge and Time Edited and annotated by Harald Atmanspacher
Author Hans Primas (deceased) Lab. für Physikalische Chemie Eidgen. Technische Hochschule Zürich Zürich, Switzerland
Editor Harald Atmanspacher Collegium Helveticum Eidgen. Technische Hochschule Zürich and University of Zürich Zürich, Switzerland
ISBN 978-3-319-47369-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-47370-3
ISBN 978-3-319-47370-3 (eBook)
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The proper understanding of a subject and its misunderstanding do not entirely exclude one another. Franz Kafka, The Process, 1925 Though it would be wrong to persistently hold on to a preconceived bias during an investigation, such a bias is not only innocuous but even mandatory at the start of the investigation. Heinrich Hertz, Inaugural Dissertation, 1880
Editor’s Preface
When Hans Primas died in October 2014 at age 86, he left behind an extensive manuscript on which he had worked for the last five years of his life. It addressed two main topics: first, knowledge and the different ways it can be acquired, and second, the role that different notions of time play in knowledge acquisition, creatively and rationally. The fields of human scholarship that he touches upon during this challenging journey in thirteen chapters culminate in a proposal for a new understanding of the relationship between the mental and the physical—one of the oldest unsolved mysteries in both science and philosophy. The key tools he uses in his wide-ranging explorations are concepts such as complementarity and entanglement, and the logic of partial Boolean algebras—all w
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