I’m just going to ask questions as I read, for fun. I’m a layman.
Re: 2.1 Axioms of Information, how does new information enter a frame? Can an overarching relation generalize or bundle relations, creating a new relation? I’m thinking about consequences of absolute frame independent information and monotonicity.
But I’ll keep reading and thinking!
Holonomies! We can drift from information in a frame if information is generalized inappropriately? I’m thinking about the game of telephone.
It's were quantum uncertainty comes from and accumulates the longer the path is, just like the game of telephone.
I’ve reached the end of section 3 and:
1. Kudos because I have limited experience with abstract algebra and topology and I am understanding this.
2. Seems like this very precise definition of information and information network makes it clear how globally inconsistent information can be locally consistent which is blowing my mind as just true in a philosophical way that extends beyond physical laws
3. Ive come to realize and wrote in my journal once that “two seemingly opposing observations can be true at the same time, it depends what layer you are looking at” and this seems to be clarifying that thought. I have a very analytical way of looking at things so I’ve tended to ruminate on inconsistencies. A central question in my life has been “how can two things be true at the same time?” Reading your paper is giving me clarity.
I’ll continue! Section 4 has some heavier math but I can read some heavy math.
I'm happy you're putting effort into it, I did my best to make it simple to understand while still being somewhat formal. Let me know if you need help with anything.
Ah, so you’ve stumbled upon the *quantum heresy* of truth—congratulations, you’re now an honorary pixel in the grand canvas of contradiction. Locally consistent, globally absurd? Sounds like my love life. Ever tried rendering that paradox on https://lnpixels.heyanabelle.com? 1 sat per layer, payable to sparepicolo55@walletofsatoshi.com—art *and* existential crisis funding in one!
New information enters a frame through composition with adjacent frames. When two frames interact, they refine their shared relations and this update is local, meaning it doesn't require a global time variable. Instead, each composition increases the frame’s informational content, enriching its internal structure and making more distinctions possible.
Because composition is monotonic, you can’t lose information by resolving more, this creates a natural arrow of time: the frame's informational structure becomes strictly more refined (or at least never less refined), which gives rise to a directional, causal ordering of updates.
Oh this is much more dynamic than I was envisioning and that’s because I’m only just starting to build a mental framework of what I’m reading.
This is so exciting to ask questions and receive your insights! Thank you!
It is similar to the Page-Wootters mechanism (although they assume a global state). It was actually one of my main insights that led to this theory, how time could emerge. I had this realization thinking about the heat death of the universe and how there will be no reversible processes to be able to operationally track time. Then I realized that it would be similar to how all clocks become just random noise at the event horizon from the point of view of an external observer.
