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Time Isn’t Fundamental—It’s a Predictability Trick

Time’s arrow may be a selection effect. If not every ending is allowed, not every past is possible. Define time as the ordering that maximizes joint predictability among coupled observables, then add a minimal admissibility set, a weak constraint on allowed outcomes. That constraint breaks symmetry...

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