http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=225 Index terms fr 0 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3102 The notion of the "passage of time" addresses the experienced fact of motion in time. Depending on the respective viewpoint, we may either say that the conscious now is moving through the once-and-for-all fixed space-time universe, or we may say that the space-time universe is moving through the constant now. In this article I try to explain the "subjective illusion" of dynamical flow on the basis of a static space-time universe as it is suggested by relativity theory. The conceptual toolkit for this undertaking is provided by the philosophy of spacetime holism, which I have suggested as a useful approach to a variety of problems. While the argument has already been developed in an earlier publication from a more technical point of view, this article concentrates on the experiential aspects of the involved concepts. Fri, 06 Sep 2024 16:10:04 +0200 Tue, 08 Oct 2024 13:30:23 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3102 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2789 The purpose of this paper is to use a general systemic model to describe complex self-organizing systems, to interpret the present state of the Western society and build some scenarios for its possible futures. ln the first part we present the general holistic metamodel or language to interpret complex partly autonomous systems, like social, living or cognitive systems. In the second part we present C. W. Graves typology for systems of value or coping systems which we will use in the application of our model. ln the last part we use our general metamodel to represent the life cycle of the rationalist paradigm from the Renaissance to the present time and generate some prospective scenarios with the help of Graves' typology. Mon, 02 Sep 2024 16:47:10 +0200 Mon, 07 Oct 2024 13:52:11 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2789 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=394 The main challenge of systems science is to elaborate a general transdisciplinary langage pertinent not only to describe and interpret systems of different natures physical, chemical, biological, social, cognitive, but also to understand their dynamics over a wide time scale, from their emergence, to their evolution toward complexity and autonomy. In this paper we present the main features of a metamodel that has been proposed recently in this context. We then use this language to investigate the evolution of the anticipative behavior of natural systems through the different stages of self-organization, self-regulation, autopoiesis, self-reference and autonomy. We show that their anticipative behavior begins with the first modes of circular causality, reaches a sort of apex with the anticipation capability of cognitive systems (like human beings), and then becomes irrelevant and meaningless with strictly autonomous systems which are identical with both their physical structure and their virtual possibles. Wed, 26 Jun 2024 15:44:15 +0200 Thu, 27 Jun 2024 10:57:33 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=394 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=222 It is shown that classical logic is too restricted for an understanding of many effects in modern physics. A more general logic, that distinguishes betwcen anticipatory and non anticipatory knowledge processing is introduced. The cognition procçss, that deduces from the measurements the physical laws with this logic, provides a unified view of quantum mechanics and relativity theory. Wed, 19 Jun 2024 11:38:41 +0200 Wed, 19 Jun 2024 11:38:49 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=222