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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!

Victor Stabile 6mo ago

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.

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Drea 6mo ago

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!

Victor Stabile 6mo ago

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.