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Format: 1 online resource (662 pages)

ISBN: 3-030-82612-0

Series Statement: Understanding Complex Systems

Note: Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Toward Physics of the Human Mind -- References -- Part I Problem of Time. Various Aspects -- 1 Time From a Bird's Eye View -- 1.1 Philosophy of Time: Historical Milestones -- 1.2 Personal Identity over Time -- 1.2.1 Ship-of-Theseus Problem -- 1.2.2 Human Identity over Time -- 1.2.3 Temporal Parts -- 1.3 Psychophysics: General Regularities -- 1.3.1 Basic Psychophysical Laws & -- Fechner-Stevens Dilemma -- 1.3.2 Universality of Inner Psychophysics -- 1.3.3 Psychological Space -- 1.4 Psychophysics of Time Perception -- 1.4.1 Time Perception as a Phenomenon of Inner Psychophysics -- 1.4.2 Psychophysical Laws of Time Perception -- 1.5 Conclusion -- References -- 2 Temporal Structure of Now from a Close-Up View -- 2.1 Specious Present: Short Comments -- 2.2 Atomism and Extensionalism -- 2.3 Atomistic Accounts of Experiential Now -- 2.3.1 Atomism -- 2.3.2 Extended Atomism -- 2.3.3 Atomic Experience as Structural Element of Human Temporal Dimension -- 2.4 Extensionalist Accounts of Experiential Now -- 2.4.1 The Naïve Extensionalism -- 2.4.2 Composite Extensionalism -- 2.4.3 Temporal Structure of Experiential Now -- 2.4.4 Continuity of Consciousness -- 2.4.5 Tripartite Structure of Experiential Now as a Gateway to Its Multi-dimensional Dynamics -- 2.5 Time Scales of Temporal Experience: Neurophysiological Data and Models -- 2.5.1 Lower Boundary of Temporal Order Perception -- 2.5.2 Partial Perception of Event Temporal Arrangement -- 2.6 Conscious Level of Experiential Now -- 2.6.1 The Diachronic Unit and Its Constituent Elements: Basic Properties -- 2.6.2 Properties of Immediate Now -- 2.6.3 Properties of Immediate Past -- 2.6.4 Properties of Immediate Future -- 2.6.5 Mental Images and Their Experience -- 2.6.6 Properties of Diachronic Unit -- 2.7 Conclusion -- References -- 3 Human Temporality: Qualitative Description. , 3.1 Complex Present: Outside Experiential Now -- 3.1.1 Goal-Oriented Behavior and Action Strategies -- 3.1.2 Connected Past -- 3.1.3 Connected Future -- 3.1.4 Remembering and Imaginary -- 3.1.5 Complex Present and Working Memory -- 3.2 Phenomenology: Basic Concepts -- 3.2.1 Philosophical Background -- 3.2.2 Intentionality and Phenomenological Reduction -- 3.2.3 Self-Consciousness, Agency, and Ownership -- 3.2.4 Embodiment and Phenomenology: Reconciliation -- 3.2.5 Forms of Consciousness -- 3.3 Space-Time Clouds -- 3.3.1 Phase Space of Mental Images -- 3.3.2 Effective Trialism of Phenomenological Description -- 3.3.3 Space-Time Cloud as Mathematical Eidos of Mental Image -- 3.3.4 Space-Time Cloud of Action Strategy -- 3.4 Human Temporality -- 3.4.1 Temporality: General Aspects -- 3.4.2 Long-Term Temporality: Qualitative Description -- 3.4.3 Long-Term Temporality: Structural Elements -- 3.4.4 Temporality: Realm of Complex Present -- 3.5 Conclusion -- References -- 4 Interaction of Human Temporality and External World -- 4.1 The Self as Bridge Between External World and Human Temporality -- 4.1.1 Dynamics of Human Temporality: General Representation -- 4.1.2 The Self as a Being Belonging to Two Worlds -- 4.2 Complex Present and Dynamical Systems -- 4.2.1 Goal-Oriented Actions in the Complex Present: Typical Problems -- 4.2.2 Goal-Oriented Actions in Complex Present: Type 1 -- 4.2.3 Goal-Oriented Actions in Complex Present: Type 2 -- 4.3 Action Strategies: The Self and the External Observer -- 4.4 Action Strategies: Un/Conscious Aspects -- 4.4.1 Un/Conscious Processes in Complex Present -- 4.4.2 Un/Conscious Components of Goal Pursuit: Common and Different Features -- 4.4.3 Un/Conscious Components of Goal Pursuit: Interrelationship -- 4.4.4 Un/Consciousness of Action Strategies: Complex Present -- 4.5 Conclusion -- References. , Part II Temporality-Time Formalism -- 5 Physics of Experiential Now: Effort of Atomic Action -- 5.1 Atomic Action: Phase Space -- 5.2 Atomic Action: Effort -- 5.2.1 Dual Structure of Effort -- 5.2.2 Characteristic Properties -- 5.2.3 Mathematical Description: General Features -- 5.3 Bodily Measure of Effort and Newtonian Mechanics -- 5.3.1 Human Control over Dynamics of Material Point -- 5.3.2 Human Control over Complex Object Dynamics -- 5.4 Mental Measure of Effort: Individual Components -- 5.4.1 Cloud-Type Structure of Mental Measure: General Features -- 5.4.2 Mental Measure mathbbEmI: Bodily Effort Experience -- 5.4.3 Mental Measure mathbbEmII: Speed-Accuracy Tradeoff -- 5.4.4 Mental Measure mathbbEmII: Power-Law of Memory Load -- 5.4.5 Mental Measure mathbbEmII: Nonstationary Speed-Accuracy Tradeoff -- 5.4.6 Mental Measure mathbbEmII: Effort of Monitoring and Attention -- 5.4.7 Mental Measure mathbbEmII: Multi-channel Speed-Accuracy Tradeoff -- 5.4.8 Mental Measure mathbbEmII: Quasi-entropy of Atomic Eidos -- 5.5 Mental Measure of Effort: Fusion of Efforts -- 5.5.1 Effort Fusion and Top-Down Causal Relations -- 5.5.2 Fatigue and Fusion-Induced Effort -- 5.5.3 Time-to-Fatigue as a Measure of Fusion-Induced Effort -- 5.5.4 Fusion-Induced Effort as Analogy to Free Energy in the Mind-in-the-Self -- 5.6 Emergence of Fusion-Induced Cloud: Beyond Experiential Now -- 5.6.1 Stimulus-Induced Clouds: Experiential Now -- 5.6.2 Fusion-Induced Clouds: Beyond Experiential Now -- 5.6.3 Dynamics of Fusion-Induced Clouds Within and Beyond Experiential Now -- 5.7 Conclusion -- 5.8 Bodily Measure of Human Effort: Complex Objects with Holonomic Constraints -- 5.8.1 Holonomic Constraints and Generalized Coordinates -- 5.8.2 Redundancy of Human Actions -- 5.8.3 Bodily Measure of Human Effort -- 5.9 Formalism of Cloud Comparison. , 5.9.1 1D-Clouds: Ordering in Magnitude -- 5.9.2 1D-Clouds: Comparison by Uncertainty -- 5.10 1D-Clouds of Mental Images: Confinement -- 5.10.1 Phase Transitions in Binary Categorization -- 5.10.2 Boundary of 1D-Clouds -- References -- 6 Physics of Complex Present: Properties of Action Strategy Cloud -- 6.1 Multitude of Optimal Action Strategies: New Interpretation of Ostrogradsky's Formalism -- 6.1.1 Goal of Subject's Actions and Its Space-Time Cloud in Complex Present -- 6.1.2 Efficiency of Action Strategies and Its Components -- 6.1.3 Action-Strategy Lagrangian -- 6.1.4 Equations of Extremals: Temporal Boundary Value Problem -- 6.1.5 Manifold of Optimal Action Strategies -- 6.1.6 Action-Strategy Hamiltonian: Ostrogradsky's Formalism -- 6.1.7 Hamiltonian Description of Optimal Action Strategies -- 6.1.8 Zero-Hamiltonian Manifold: Stable and Unstable Branches -- 6.2 Space-Time Structure of Action Strategy Cloud: Ostrogradsky Instability -- 6.2.1 Imperfection of Action-Strategy Implementation: Two Sources -- 6.2.2 Hamiltonian Description of Action Strategy Implementations -- 6.2.3 Temporal Criterion of Proximity to Action Strategy Optimal Implementations and Ostrogradsky Instability -- 6.2.4 Hamiltonian Description of Dual-Manifold Initiation of Action Strategies -- 6.2.5 Spatial Measure of Proximity to Action Strategy Optimal Implementations -- 6.2.6 Initial State of Action Strategy Space-Time Cloud: Cloud Density and Density Function of Hamiltonian Systems -- 6.2.7 Action Strategy Space-Time Cloud: Nonlocality of Human Temporality and Bilinear Normalization -- 6.2.8 Action Strategy Space-Time Cloud: Governing Equation -- 6.3 2D-Time Dynamics: Time & -- Temporality -- 6.3.1 Mechanism of 2D-Time Dynamics -- 6.3.2 Basic Elements of Passive Phase -- 6.3.3 Action Strategy Termination -- 6.3.4 Action Strategy Efficiency. , 6.3.5 Neurophysiological Background of Action Strategy Selection -- 6.3.6 Types of Active Phase -- 6.3.7 Dynamics of Corrective Type Active Phase -- 6.3.8 Dynamics of Selective Type Active Phase -- 6.3.9 Fusion-Based Reinforcement Learning -- 6.4 Conclusion -- 6.5 Lagrangian Description -- 6.5.1 Higher-Order Lagrangian -- 6.5.2 Higher-Order Euler-Lagrange Equation -- 6.5.3 Temporal Boundary Value Problem -- 6.5.4 Action Functional in Extended Phase Space -- 6.6 Hamiltonian Description -- 6.6.1 Ostrogradsky's Hamiltonian -- 6.6.2 Hamilton's Equations -- 6.7 Dynamics of Linear Hamiltonian Systems in the Hamilton Space mathbbRH -- 6.7.1 J-Orthogonality and Hamiltonian -- 6.7.2 Lagrange Splitting and Dual-Expansion -- 6.7.3 Inner Dynamics of Zero-Hamiltonian Manifold -- 6.7.4 Dual Time-Reversibility of Inner Dynamics -- References -- Part III Instead of Epilogue: Beyond Complex Present -- 7 The Phenomenological Self in Physics of the Human Mind -- 7.1 The Modern Concepts of the Self -- 7.2 The Self and Its Holistic Properties -- 7.3 Two Facets of the Self -- 7.3.1 Mind-Body Supervenience of the Self -- 7.3.2 The Mind-in-the-Self -- 7.3.3 The Body-in-the-Self -- 7.4 Evolution of the Self -- References -- Post Scriptum -- Index.

Additional Edition: ISBN 3-030-82611-2

Language: English