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Measuring Life's Progression Through Time
Life is viewed as a timeline influenced by causation chains. The assembly index measures the ordering of all possible events, analogous to time's depth in the space of all possibilities. In thermodynamics, coarse-graining is done by temperature and pressure, while in assembly theory, it is done by the number of object copies and the assembly index.