0.2 The position of the physical time in the
psychological world picture
Physical time plays a very important part of argument in the functions, which describe the physical world. The relativity of time intervals is doubtless. The well-known Michaelson - Morly experiment gave reasons to A. Einstein to make a conclusion that there is no world ether and the absoluteness of time was rejected.
A. Einstein was made to offer the postulates to justify his "silent" preconditions about time
and space homogenity and the precondition that time and space are isotropy. On the base of these
postulates the silent precondition was proved also for the neglected corner of the psychical Universe, which is the psychical world picture.
The physical world picture became triumphal successful and famous. The time and the space in
this picture are complements for each other in a narrow area of the near-light speeds, i.e. in the
narrow area of their relations, literally - of the relation of the time to the space, which can be
compared with the light speed.
The affirmativety of this way of the physical world description is doubtless, but the instrument of
description is from the psychical office and is a product of the psychical world picture development and it meets one of the human requirements, i.e. that of the cognition.
A. Einstein was lead with the principles of the seek for harmony in the nature and he had found this harmony for the movement of the physical objects in the near-light areas of the movement.
The physical time is one of the times, which corresponds the human requirement of the orientation in the physical space. What time do we speak about: 2000, 2000, 2000?
That is astronomic time. Astronomic clock have counted 2000 readings, nothing more.
The time here is the movement of the planets. What is the human time after accepting the fact that we have agreed to express it with the help of the planets movement, with the help of the movements of the clock hands, Cesius-133 atoms oscillation etc? What is the time?
All the ways for time expression are human definitions and conditionality. There is no time without a human being, there is only eternal movement. These are the orientation, understanding and describing of the physical movement (changing) that need the notion of
time, that's why this notion was introduced.
Besides, time may be felt or be presented in the image or as a conception of the objective time.
When a human being loses his life, he kills all the times. If the mankind disappears - the time will also disappear, the rest will be the movement (changing) and there will nobody to introduce the notion of time and to describe the physical movement by creating it for the description of the concept of speed, light speed, physical time, three-dimensional space, space dietortion and for the acceleration-deceleration of the physical time by the movements, which can be
compared with the light speed. All the times will disappear with the human life flow. The life flow gives reasons for the time flow. The life runs in the time flow that splits into the times bunch to the vital requirements from the requirements subjects. Or vice versa: from the requirements to the requirement subjects, which is frankly speaking the same movement, but with the different marks up to the coordinate system beginning for the description. When we take the coordinate system beginning and the direction to the requirement subject, we can determine any movement of the requirement subject as approaching. In this case we define movements as "plus", then the opposite movement (call it estrangement) will have the "minus" sign. Here we open the opportunity of operating with vectors and using vector methods for the description.
After the physical science have brought the time to one coordinate from of four-dimensional world, a little is left to do. We can doubt the existence of what we call the objective time, we leave it as a way, an tool, mean for the reconstruction of imagined past and future (created by a human being) and for the orientation in the surrounding world changing. The description with the help of the objective time words doesn't prove the objective world existence. We can describe the planets movement with the help of a tool, which takes 1/86400 part of a day (the movement of the Earth), the movement of one of the planets as its base. That is description
of one heavenly body through its relation to another one with the help of a conditionality, which is one second. One movement is expressed through another one. Where is the objective time here? There is no objective time. There is a human conditionality for the design of the movements relativity. An auxiliary description tool can not be a reason for the objective object (which is noted by this concept) existence proving.
The most general time definition can be, where time is a useful instrumental method, a method of the reflection of the orientation between the present moment and imagined future. That is the future situation of some subjects, objects, things. There is only the present moment that consists from the imagined objects state to the future or to the past.
The human relations with the world in terms of the physical concept includes also the temporal
orientation in the physical world. This orientation in the time is very relative and conditional.
The concept of time is certainly a very useful concept, a very productive in terms of the human world cognition. However, it often happens in the human cognition and
psychics that there is no physical correlation between the concept and the physical world, it has no material embodiment or a subject. There is no material substance behind the concept of time. All the definitions of the time can be brought to the description of movement and to the way of this movement observing.
Eternal nature doesn't need time. Temporal human being needs a way of orientation in his movements and in the movements of the world that surrounds him. Psychical reflection of the reality happens on the different levels and in different forms.
Let's use as a demonstration the distinction between these forms and levels after the book by Lev. Itelson "Lectures on General Psychology". Part two.
Reflectional processes.
Forms and levels of the psychical reality reflection.
Structures and stages of the cognition activity.
Lectures 13 - 25.
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What is known about the temporal side
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Sensations. Sensor reflection. Signals and information.
Analyzers. Sensations types and properties. Sensations
functions and mechanisms.
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Phase wave as temporal changing of space distribution of potentials
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Information given by the afferent nerve to the
primary sensor field is coded with the form of phase wave in the state space on the output of afferent axons.
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Emotions. Sensor reflection. Signals meaning and
evaluation. Emotions types and properties.
Emotions functions and mechanisms.
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Perceptions. Image-bearing reflection. Objects
structure and sensor signals organization.
Perceptional image. Its features. Sensor standards.
Perceptional categories, attributes and models.
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All knowledge about the TIME is limited by Paragraph 5.6 Topic Category List XXVII Psychology Congress.
5.0 Attention and Perception
5.1 Attention and detection
5.2 Visual perception
5.3 Auditory perception and music perception
5.4 Other modality perception
5.5 Space perception
5.6 Time perception
5.7 Aesthetics
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Phenomenology of an object
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Perceptional activity. Perception processes structure
and mechanisms. Correction. Complementation.
Filtration. Recognizing and subject values.
Investigating and probability evaluations.
Perceptional image forming.
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Information processing on the stage of perceptions.
Sensor-motor intellect. Its structures and development.
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Representation. Second stage of the image reflection.
Ideas types. Ideas structure and properties.
Ideas essence and functions. Sense and semiotic
relations. Imitation and sensual modeling.
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Figurative thinking. Information processing on
the stage of ideas. Ideas transformations.
Associations. Ideal experimenting. Figurative
thinking structure and operations. Figurative
thinking functions. Imagination.
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Word, language and speech. Sign reflection. Meaning structure. Paradigmatic and
linguistic meanings. Semantic types and fields.
Verbal meaning genesis. Language and speech activity
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Empiric meanings and sense. Categorization, classifying of reality and bringing it to a system. Empiric meanings forming process.
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Empiric thinking. Information processing on the stage of empiric meanings. Discovering and using of relations. Tasks solving. Empiric thinking operations and structures. Common sense.
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Concepts and terms. Conceptual reflection. Understanding
and idealizing. Concepts forming. Concept relations.
Judgments. Laws. Systems. Logic relations.
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Theoretical thinking. Information processing on the
stage of concepts. Explanation. Model. Theory.
Theoretical thinking operations and structures.
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Formal thinking. Structural reflection. Variables.
Operators. Forms. Structures.
Intuition and creative thinking. Main cognition stages synthesis. Dynamic models. Mad ideas.
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On the different levels of human reflection of world and self-reflection a person
reflects his temporal attitude to his requirement subjects world in his own way. One of the particular cases corresponding to one of the psychical reflection levels is the physical time concept - a narrow stripe from the spectrum in the human psychical world picture.
Alexei Pestov, March, 2000
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