Is the Universe Continuous or Distinct?

In the cloud forests of Pake Sigma II, the inhabitants do not keep time, but stretch and slice it. No other planet has life evolved to occupy so many timescales and niches all at once. There's a temporal Galapagos, a mandelian garden of criss-crossing timelines. Are they sentient? Does that Petra Drake-Hone make long-lasting landscape art with the aid of erosion? Do the needle-back composed poetry with an alphabet of movements too quick for us to parse?