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Time is not an illusion. It’s an object with physical size | Aeon Essays (aeon.co)
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TLDR: Assembly Theory tries to objectively measure the minimum number of steps needed to assemble complex objects from simpler ones. By assigning a minimum time to each assembly step, a minimum time “depth” can be assigned to complex objects that doesn’t depend on their actual history.