Is Time Fundamental or Emergent?

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Time and space are associated into a manifold called space time. Quanti mechanicsand o gravity really seem to treat time and space differently. Are ther theories that incorporate random ness somehow as another component of this manifold? I'm not exactly sure how to analogize it to what computer scientists think about. No algrithm can actually manufacture its own random ness. If there is true random ness, it is always mind. The universe doesn't have an answer that we're looking for in any obvious sense. But maybe there is some role for that.

Welcome to the June 2022 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! We are inaugurating a slightly different publication schedule, in which these monthly AMA will take the place of one of the regular Monday episodes, rather than being in addition to all of them. A slight tweak that will hopefully make my obligations a little more manageable.

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