[SydPhil] SydFoP seminar: Biological Timing and the Deeper Nature of Time, Greg Murray, Thursday 20 June

[Matthew Farr]

The next talk in the Sydney Foundations of Physics series is Thursday 20th June and covers the the role of time in biology, its relationship with the arrow of time in physics and wider philosophical issues. Details are below.
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Speaker. Greg Murray (Swinburne University of Technology)
Title. Biological Timing and the Deeper Nature of Time

Abstract. The aim of this talk is to use findings from the science of biological timing to stimulate interdisciplinary discussion about the nature of time.  Four questions will be raised:
1.     In biology, explanations are typically framed as recursive dynamic systems with teleological connotations and pervasive periodic features.   How should we understand the relationship between biology’s dynamic assumptions and physics’ “arrow of time”?
2.     In living systems, time has fractal properties that are linked to health.  What does temporal self-similarity in far-from-equilibrium systems tell us about the nature of time in the universe at large?
3.     In humans, biological timing exemplifies the embodied and embedded nature of consciousness.  What does the interpenetrance of world, body and mind in humans tell us about the traditional philosophical distinction between time as an objective feature of the universe and time as ‘merely’ constructed?
4.     Mood disorders are partly caused by disturbance of biological rhythm function, and are associated with a distinct change in the lived experience of time.  Does mental health scaffold a shared sense of time as flowing from the past through the phenomenal present to the future?

Time. Thursday 20th June, 11:30-13:00
Location. Philosophy Common Room S413, Main Quad - A14, University of Sydney.
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All are welcome!

Please note that we are seeking speakers for future seminars - any area related to foundational concepts in physics (e.g. space, time, matter, motion, probability, measurement, etc.) is welcome, whether theoretical, philosophical or methodological. If you'd like to give a talk, or know of any future visitors who would like to give a talk, please contact me at matt.farr at sydney.edu.au<mailto:matt.farr at sydney.edu.au>.

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All the best
Matt
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DR MATT FARR | Postdoctoral Research Fellow
New Agendas for the Study of Time<http://newagendasstudyoftime.wordpress.com/> | Centre for Time
School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
Room N494 | Quadrangle A14
University of Sydney | NSW | 2006

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DR MATT FARR | Postdoctoral Research Fellow
New Agendas for the Study of Time<http://newagendasstudyoftime.wordpress.com/> | Centre for Time
School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
Room N494 | Quadrangle A14
University of Sydney | NSW | 2006

T +61 2 9114 0633<tel:%2B61%202%209114%200633> | F +61 2 9351 3918<tel:%2B61%202%209351%203918>
E matt.farr at sydney.edu.au<mailto:matt.farr at sydney.edu.au>
W mattfarr.co.uk<http://mattfarr.co.uk/>

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