Abstract
The aim of the present article is to propose possible intersections between contemporary physics and neurosciences, in matters related to space-time. Such scope is of great significance both in “normal” and pathologic situations. In the latter, states like hypermnesia (enhanced capacity to evoke memories, with distortion of information stored in neural circuits) are described, which can be thought of – in a parallel with physics – as space-time scenarios with more than one time-type direction. Dimensions of such category – called Ataiyah-Ward space-time – have been considered in connection with systems of interest in the study of fundamental interactions, and, in macroscopic scale, in association with the issue of gravitational collapse. One has sought to understand physical phenomena in the presence of extra time to then use these studies to propose an attempt to modelling hypermnesia, through the concept that, in certain situations, neuronal system behaves as if immerse in a scenario with two time-type directions.
Highlights
Space and time are essential aspects of human life in its different dimensions – biological, psychological, social, ecological and others one might think of
One should add to this the fact that there are important questions concerning the way human brain – space-time limited – is able to deal with such dimensions: How and where, for instance, could the human brain, so small in volume, having such brief existence, become capable of dealing with huge expansions of space and time? How and where did such ability start? How and when did humans really “discover” the existence of time and space? How did our brains evolve to perceive and organize the world always within the structure of time and space? (SZÁMOSI, 1994)2
Such conjectures point to the relevance of space and time for the fields of philosophy and natural sciences – Physics – and to the relevance such themes have been acquiring in contemporary Neuroscience studies – with significant implications to the understanding of neurobiological and psychopathological processes – opening perspectives for a fruitful dialogue between fields of knowledge. Based on these brief considerations, the following essay aims to present a preliminary proposal of interdisciplinary dialogue between contemporary Physics and Neuroscience – mediated by philosophic thinking – focusing on space and time, weaving up the narrative in five steps: (1) “Evolution in space and time” – concerning which the authors recognize great intellectual debt to the work of G
Summary
Space and time are essential aspects of human life in its different dimensions – biological, psychological, social, ecological and others one might think of. Such conjectures point to the relevance of space and time for the fields of philosophy and natural sciences – Physics – and to the relevance such themes have been acquiring in contemporary Neuroscience studies – with significant implications to the understanding of neurobiological and psychopathological processes – opening perspectives for a fruitful dialogue between fields of knowledge Based on these brief considerations, the following essay aims to present a preliminary proposal of interdisciplinary dialogue between contemporary Physics and Neuroscience – mediated by philosophic thinking – focusing on space and time, weaving up the narrative in five steps: (1) “Evolution in space and time” – concerning which the authors recognize great intellectual debt to the work of G. Számozi, (Time and Space: the Twin Dimensions) –, (2) “The concepts of space and time”, (3) Extra space-time dimensions, (4) Neurosciences, relativity and space-time, (5) Extra space-time dimensions: compositions between physics and neurosciences
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