Why does time feel like it flows?
OPH traces the feeling to the part of you that is not made of records. Every observer holds a set of questions about its own patch of the world and a state, the odds it puts on each answer. That pair, with nothing added, fixes a flow, a reversible motion of the questions whose rate comes from the odds themselves. Records are the questions that can be answered alongside every other question, which makes them copyable and safe to reread, and the flow leaves them where they are. Whatever is going by goes by in the other part, the questions that refuse to be answered together. Reading that flow as felt passage is an added hypothesis, which the mathematics of the flow does not supply. A second hypothesis, which is no clock law either, ties felt passage to the disagreements an observer has not yet repaired, since no finite observer can read the whole settled world at once. No clock ever built has an output for the present moment.
This answer comes from OPH, Observer Patch Holography. OPH is a rigorous, consistent and complete description of the unified, self-creating computational Universe we inhabit. Its consistency is machine-checked: the fixed point at its core is constructed explicitly, and a theory with a model contains no contradiction.
To understand OPH and check every step yourself, start with the free book Reverse Engineering Reality. It builds the theory from the ground up, and the OPH Notebook answers your questions while you read.
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