This book considers the concept of time after the shift from genetics to phylogenetics. It uses an interdisciplinary analysis based on the latest findings from neuroscience, physics, philosophy of medicine, epistemology, logic and artificial intelligence to delve into various aspects of the enigmatic character of time. The book shows how what we call 'experience' is structured by virtue of the availability of 'innate guides to learning' dating back to a deep memory, which has the long timescale of natural history and not the short timescale of individual development. Meanwhile, the idea of the 'future' is understood not as a calculated probability via statistics and artificial intelligence, but as an uncertain or open temporal dimension and an ethics of possibility. This book is of interest to scholars and specialists involved in this research, and to the general reader interested in the current cultural debate about evolution, memory, and time.
1 The Premise: Time Between Physics, Philosophy, and Neurobiology.- 2
The Eye Observing Itself and the Concept of Personhood.- 3 On the Other Side
of the Mirror.- 4 From Genetics to Epigenetics.- 5 The Dual Level of
Information Transmission and Processing.- 6 The Biology of Time in Biological
and Extrabiological Systems.- 7 Future and Forthcoming: Probability and
Possibility.- 8 Conclusion: A Concrete Case Study-The NurTime Project.
Luca Saba is the past Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Cagliari, Full Professor of Radiology and currently Director of the Department of Medical Sciences and Public Health. His research fields are focused on Neuroradiology and Diagnostics in Vascular and Neurovascular Sciences. He is the author of more than 700 scientific publications in prestigious international journals, such as New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet Neurology, and Circulation Radiolog. He has won 21 scientific awards and is the editor of 19 books in the fields of computed tomography, cardiovascular, neuroradiology and imaging of neurodegenerative diseases. On 13 January 2017, on the initiative of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, he was awarded the honour of Cavaliere dell'Ordine al Merito della Repubblica italiana.
Silvano Tagliagambe is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy of Science at the University of Sassari. He graduated in philosophy in Milan with Ludovico Geymonat and specialised in physics at the Lomonosov University in Moscow. He has been Professor of Philosophy of Science at the Universities of Cagliari, Pisa, Rome 'La Sapienza' and Sassari. He deals with the processes of communication, the analysis of the most recent results of physics and neuroscience and the deepening of their epistemological significance, analytical psychology, the philosophy of medicine, the philosophy of the digital, the city and public space in relation to the organisation of networks and knowledge, the link between humanistic culture and scientific culture, and Russian scientific and philosophical thought. He has devoted more than 450 publications to these topics. On 6 February 2021, on the initiative of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, he was awarded the honour of Grande Ufficiale dell'Ordine al Merito della Repubblica italiana.
