What is Time?

00:00:00.000 | What is time? Time is a computational phenomenon.

00:00:03.120 | Time is the progressive change of the network.

00:00:06.520 | One particle touches another one, touches another one,

00:00:08.880 | this thing changes this one, this changes this one.

00:00:11.360 | Sounds to me like you're describing your cellular automata.

00:00:15.040 | Yes, it's very much like that. It's a computational process.

00:00:17.960 | And it happens to be operating on these hypergraphs

00:00:20.840 | rather than just lines of black and white cells.

00:00:23.000 | So the universe itself is a computer... - Yes.

00:00:26.160 | ...running a computational exercise.

00:00:28.400 | Yes, well, I don't know whether you'd call it an exercise, but...

00:00:30.800 | It is computing. - Yes, it is computing.

00:00:32.720 | And that's what the progress of time is.

00:00:35.120 | And time is the progress of that computation. - Yes.

00:00:37.920 | And that is what people mean when they say, "Are we living in a simulation?"