ФИЛОСОФИЯ /
6.Философия науки
Elkhova Oksana Igorevna, Doctor
of Philosophy , professor, Department of Philosophy and History of Science, Bashkir State
University, Russia;
VIRTUAL REALITY TIME
In modern philosophical literature there are a large number of works
devoted to the problem of time. It would seem that there is every reason to
take the time enough to study forms of being.
However, this topic is far from exhausted, and leaves room for new
studies. Changes that occur in the field of scientific knowledge, as well as in
the social and cultural reality give a new sound theme. There has been rapid
development of information and communication technologies, which are becoming
an integral part of human existence, create their own environment with which
man is concerned, is a specific way to create a virtual reality, and are
transformative in nature, both its participants and society as a whole.
The modern era is characterized by the emergence of post-nonclassical
type of scientific rationality. In the post-nonclassical measuring the
transformation of the concept of reality, it is seen not as one-dimensional and
linear, and gets the definition of complex, non-linear. The lack of a clear
distinction between subject and object, their interdependence, and interdependence
of each other opens the sphere of phenomena, which are designated by the term «virtual».
Under virtual reality refers to the interaction processes that do not belong
entirely subject field or the field of the object, stable functioning, but
intractable conceptual representation.
Of the existing methodological principles of study time note the
tradition of highlighting topological and metric properties. Researchers: J.F.
Askin [1], A.M. Mostepanenko [2], V.I. Svidersky [3], R.J. Steinman [4], Yu.A.
Urmantsev [5], doing analysis and systematization of attribute characteristics
of space and time, agree that a large set of features of space and time should
be considered at the level of the two groups: topological and metric
properties. At the same topological properties relate qualitatively stable
characteristics of time and space, and metric − quantitatively the
changing features of space and time. Topological properties of time include the
one-dimensionality, linearity, irreversibility, consistency, and duration is a
metric property.
Metric properties of time are given to us in
direct perception; the topological properties of time can be discovered only by
abstract mental activity. No, of course, no doubt that the properties of
physical time will be different from the virtual time, but described the group
as topological and metrical properties of time can be mapped to properties of
the virtual time. What is important is the approach in which the properties of
the virtual time are considered in their quantitative and qualitative manifestations.
It is obvious that the qualitative characteristics of temporal relations will
be linked to the structure and contents of the virtual time, and the
quantitative characteristic is associated with duration of virtual time.
It is possible to ascertain the difference
between the duration of physical or virtual time: the virtual time is slower if
we are talking about his perception; many researchers have noted the «loss of
time» in the space of virtual reality. So, for example, S. E. Yermakov revealed
that immersion of users in virtual reality computer games there is «the effect
of time lost»: a person believes that 30 minutes went by; in real time it is
1.5 - 2 hours and even more [6]. Refer to the topological properties of time.
If physical time directed from the past through present to future, in virtual
reality the obvious «loop», «inversion» of time. From the properties of
multi-directional virtual time should be his property multidimensionality.
Qualitative characteristics of virtual
reality should also include the presence in it of a certain time cycles
(rhythms). Fractal logic of virtual reality ensures that the iterative
processes and time cycles, the return motion elements. For example, virtual
reality game guarantees a person the opportunity at any time to start over go
back. Due to the inversion of a virtual time and loses its irreversibility, its
various layers intersect and merge.
The structural organization
of the virtual space on the basis of the rhizome defines discrete time. It is
worth noting that for the rhizomes even used the term «insignificant gap», as
it can be severed at any place, in fact, the place is a place of discontinuity
of its new growth. Virtual Discrete evident in the video clips in their spot, incoherence,
an instantaneous image as the most complex problems of the modern human being
in the world as a dynamic flashing images [7].
Thus, analyzing the
specifics of virtual time can be distinguished its topological properties: omni
directional, multi-dimensional, and the reversibility of the discrete.
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