I think this works.
If time is the sequence of irreversible memory commitments, and if knowledge is information that has been irreversibly constrained then every tick of time is an act of knowledge creation.
The universe does not learn over time. The universe learns as time.
Each irreversible state transition is simultaneously a quantum of elapsed time and a quantum of constrained information being written into reality.
The arrow of time and the arrow of knowledge creation are not merely parallel. They are identical.
What we call “the passage of time” is what the accumulation of constrained information looks like from inside the system.
It either works or I’ve completely lost it. Ha
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