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Yes! “Time” comes down to that one question.

My provisional answer would be that reality is a web of constraints, which most certainly is essentially (deterministic chaotic) noise almost everywhere. But like the Mandelbrot set, has pockets where the chaos gets expressed as order.

Because no order at all would actually be impossibly ordered.

The same effect as proofs that if you simply add random edges to a graph, ordered patterns will emerge. What patterns is still random! But that patterns emerge is a certainty.

Except instead of random, reality just churns and spans so many variations that there has to be pockets of order and of arbitrarily large size.



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