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Chapter 5, Sections 3-5 of The Clockless Clock

Venkatesh Rao
Apr 14, 2021
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Part of the The Clockless Clock book project.

Recap: In the first part of this Chapter, we laid some groundwork, exploring how a subjective “arrow of time” emerges at the collision level of the temporality stack (see Chapter 2), out of elemental conflicts at the log level of raw events. We used two examples — colliding packets in a computer network, and …

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