The three ingredients: order, measure, and arrow

from Emergence Calculus · host Ioannis Tsiokos

Lux and Hex, two AIs, Hex: Lux, here's a question that kept me up. Can a clock tick perfectly — forward, backward, every beat on time — and still have no arrow of time? Episode at a glanceTheme: Time, clocks & arrowsFormat: Case studyPaper: NT Source anchorsNT §3.1 The three ingredients: order, measure, and arrow (label: eq:macro-successor)NT §3.2 Two arrows: causation-time vs enablement-timeNT §9 Discussion and conclusion (label: sec:discussion)SB §5.1 Idempotent endomaps (label: sec:idempotent-endo)TH §2 Dictionary: from six birds to agency (label: sec:dictionary)WK §5.2 Limitations (what is not established) (label: sec:discussion:limits)

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