Re: BioTheory Launch, time

[Dan Fiscus <***>]

Judith,

Below is an excerpt and then link to some good info
on time, internal models, consciousness, etc.

Dan

Judith Rosen wrote:

> This is a general announcement that "BioTheory: A Journal of General
> Science based on the Rosennean Complexity Paradigm" is set to launch
> its inaugural issue on January 1st, 2005. This is a publication
> created as a forum for new science, in memory of Dr. Robert Rosen.
> It can be found at www.rosen-enterprises.com
> <http://www.rosen-enterprises.com> (follow the links on the main page).
>
> The theme for the inaugural issue is TIME.


Excerpt from this site:

http://www.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/paps/consc/brcons2.htm

"Subjective time may thus be an internal model whose basis is quite
different from mechanical notions of linear time, partly because it
requires integrated representation of past memorizations and learning
with future plans and survival strategies. It is easy to see that visual
perception constructs an external spatial reality but more difficult to
accept the possibility that time is similarly an internal construct.
What may be even more difficult to accept is that the subjective notion
of free-will or intent arises because the function of consciousness is
to anticipate, forming an "ill posed" problem in time."