Chronotopology: Destiny and Control in Human Systems Studies in the Interactive Connectedness of Time

Frontiers in Systems Research - Kluwer-Nijhoff-Publishing Boston-Dordrecht-Lancaster - 1985

by Charles Muses

Contents

Prolog 1 Introduction: System Theory and Chronotopology 1.1. Time and Nonlinear Systematics: Chronotopological Systems 1.2. The Human Factor Cannot be Neglected with Impunity 1.3. Systemics and Phenomenology 1.4. Needed Metamorphosis in Science 2 Syntactic Languages: The Symbolic and The Diabolic 2.1. The Roots of Symbolization: Metaphor and Meaning 2.2. The Impossibility of Pure Abstraction 2.3. Semantic Resonance and the Nonarbitrary Symbol 2.4. The Time Line 2.5. Radial Versus Linear Language, A Key to Noncausal Causation 2.6. A Note on Paradoxes, Logic and Language 2.7. A Parable on Logic 3. Chronos as a System of Qualitative Resonances: Chronosymbiosis 3.1.   La Forza Del Destino: Time Waves; Phenomenology of Time 3.11  A Case of Bioresonance 3.12  The Resonant Universe 3.13  Cosmo-Ecological Balances 3.14  Cosmo-Ecological Sytematics as Chronosymbiosis 3.141 Generalized Causality 3.15  Future Feedback 3.151 Nonlinear Waves and Future Feedback 3.16  Fate and Free Choice Are Not Contraries 3.2   The Computer as a Chronos Machine 3.21  Defining the Computer 3.22  The Computer's Functional Architecture 3.23  Some Advanced Design Considerations 3.3   EXORcist: 3.4   Some Extension in Class Inter/Intra Dynamics 3.5   Brief Prognosis in the Light of Time-Systems-Theory 4. ANIMA ET THEMIS MUNDI:     Psyglyphs, A Multilevel Language of Qualitative Time 4.1 Languages and Their Levels 4.2 When Languages May Be Inherently Inappropriate 4.3 Typology as a New Tool in Systems Science 4.4 The Phosphene Prototypes 4.5 Psyglyphs Computerization 5. FONS ET ORIGO:     Some Traditions Uniquely Illuminating The Structure     and Meaning of Time Systems 6. Social Applications Epilog

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