My Big TOE: The birth of time

Dimensionality
A dimension is a well-defined processing subset within The Big Computer. Within digital consciousness, the creation of various dimensions is the creation of separate memory and processing subsets (like partitioning in digital computers).

We experience our perception of reality as 3D time-ordered only because the rules of our universe require four coordinates to specify individual events relative to an individual's frame of reference (each of which is as fundamentally proper as any other) on a temporal axis. The space-time rule-set is only a local rule set and does not apply to the larger reality.

How is time invented?
To invent time, AUO "needs only to oscillate (repetitively change the state of) some individual or group of reality cells more or less regularly. The cells oscillate at a constant, regular rate to be more functional (hence more profitable). Once cycle equals two oscillation frequencies--a change of state and a change back.

1. The Fundamental Process enables AUO to change, or modify its absolute oneness
2. AUO finds it can lower its entropy by changing states
3. Time separates a "before" state from an "after" state and therefore enables more organization and complexity and less entropy
4. Awareness of change, before and after states, necessitates the idea of a personal time

Why is time invented?
The organizational potential of a system multiples if it is possible for operations and content to be arranged in a specific order and sequence because "cause" and "effect" explodes exponentially the number of potential possibilities.

Interactive content can now be indexed and sequenced: sequences propagate and carry content. Regularity enables complex interaction. Causal logic chains evolve. Time acts as a catalytic agent--it enhances AUO's ability to self-organize. In terms of consciousness, which is pressured by self-improvement, more aware and highly organized configurations (higher quality consciousness) are profitable.

Time facilitates communication
AUO has relatively independent parts and patterns (reality cells). More possibilities and evolutionary potential can be generated if those parts and patterns can communicate because patterns of content can be propagated, integrated, and regulated. Communication is facilitated by time: A cell changes state, and an "adjacent" cell can now change state as a response to that cell's having changed state. A sent message and reception (change) takes place in a period of time. If there is a meaning encoded in the state change (like alphabets or gestures or sounds), that is communication and data sharing.

What is the fastest a given message can be propagated? However fast a single reality cell can change state. That is one half cycle, or one quantum, of AUO-time. This fundamental quantum of time is thus the smallest unit of time our AUO clock can directly measure.