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Computation is literally bound by entropy. Math has no such limitations unless you explicitly define them.

I thoroughly recommend researching entropy as it regards to e.g. information theory, systems engineering and even (perhaps especially) to machine learning.

Computation is ultimately about what we can compute _in this universe_ and the forward flow of time is an emergent property from the universe’s innate entropic guarantees.

Time is “pre-sorted” for us thanks to entropy, enabling us to define algorithmic complexities over the time domain in the first place.



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