Protention and retention in biological systems

Details Protention and retention in biological systems Protention and retention in biological systems

2010-04-29

arxiv.org/abs/1004.5361v2

Theory in Biosciences 130 (2): 107-117 (2011), ISSN: 1431-7613

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Other Quantitative Biology

This paper was made possible only as part of an extended collaboration with Francis Bailly (see references), a dear friend and

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10.1007/s12064-010-0116-6

This paper proposes an abstract mathematical frame for describing some features of cognitive and biological time. We focus here on the so called "extended present" as a result of protentional and retentional activities (memory and anticipation). Memory, as retention, is treated in some physical theories (relaxation phenomena, which will inspire our approach), while protention (or anticipation) seems outside the scope of physics. We then suggest a simple functional representation of biological protention. This allows us to introduce the abstract notion of "biological inertia".

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