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Geometry and Applications
March 13-16, 2000
Sobolev Institute of Mathematics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Novosibirsk State University
Novosibirsk, Russia

Organizers
Yu.G. Rushetnyak (Chair of Program Committee; Russia), V.V. Vershinin (Chair of Organizing Committee; Russia), A.A. Borisenko (Ukraine), Yu.D. Burago (Russia), V.M. Gol'dshtein (Israel), M.L. Gromov (France), I.G. Nikolaev (USA/Russia), S.P. Novikov (USA/Russia), A.V. Pogorelov (Ukraine), I.Kh. Sabitov (Russia)

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Topology of human body and time
by
A.K. Guts
Omsk State University

The Philosopher Kant declared that the Time is given us a piori, i.e. is defined for person from birth. Has it connection with the topology and geometry of human body? In Minkowsky space-time the four-dimensional topology of human body is trivial and diffeomorphic to D=[0, 1] x B, where B is a subset of R3. Such topology allows to perceive the sensations by consecutively any point of body. If body has other four-dimensional topology which is not diffeomorphic to D, then there exists full collapse of memory in an effort to observe the sensation consecutively. Hence, other topology of body means the absence of time in that form to which we got accustomed.

http://www.univer.omsk.su/~guts

Date received: February 4, 2000

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