toward concrete goals and serving the continuity of the organism's life, multiple and final causation, rigid programming gives way to dynamic programming nootemporal - long straight arrow, "You'll come to me out of the long ago", intentionality directed towards concrete or symbolic goals, serving continued integrity of the self, human actions are connected through symbolic causes known as ideas, the possibility of choice among ideas and corresponding actions is known as human freedom, ideas can produce responses to imaginary challenges sociotemporal - A society is a group of people with a family of conflicts that defines them and distinguishes them from other societies. man has capacity to change social institutions in response to symbolic causes Books Books that he has authored include: 1966, The Voices of Time: A Cooperative Survey of Man's Views of Time as Expressed by the Sciences and by the Humanities 1975, Of Time, Passion, and Knowledge 1978, Time as Conflict: a Scientific and Humanistic Study 1982, The Genesis and Evolution of Time: a Critique of Interpretations in Physics 1987, Time the Familiar Stranger 1999, Time, Conflict, and Human Values 2007, Time and Time Again: Reports from a Boundary of the Universe See also Philosophy of space and time Powers of Ten, a 1977 film in which a Fraser book makes a brief appearance Temporality Chronosophy References External links JT Fraser's Curriculum Vitae and Homepage The ISST (International Society for the Study of Time) Homepage 1923 births 2010 deaths Writers from Budapest American people of Hungarian-Jewish descent Hungarian emigrants to the United States Hungarian Jews University of Hanover alumni