Further AMS Use Cases
Entropy, the Arrow of Time, and Why “NOW” Exists (AMS framing)
## 1) Entropy in AMS terms
Entropy is the tendency for AMS tension to redistribute from:
- coherent / low-configuration-count modes (ordered, usable gradients)
to
- incoherent / high-configuration-count modes (chaotic micro-torsion, heat-like behaviour)
In plain terms: the AMS has vastly more ways to be “jiggly and smeared out” than “neatly biased and structured.”
## 2) The Arrow of Time
The “arrow” is the directional bias that:
- coherent AMS gradients (usable configurations) tend to decay into incoherent micro-torsion,
because the latter has overwhelmingly more accessible microstates.
So “future” is the direction in which:
- structured gradients get spent,
- correlations decohere,
- and recoverable “work-capacity” becomes unrecoverable (as heat-like AMS motion).
## 3) Why irreversibility appears even if underlying rules are reversible
Even if the micro-rules of AMS dynamics were symmetric, macroscopic irreversibility appears because:
- re-concentrating dispersed micro-torsion into a single neat gradient requires exquisite coordination across huge numbers of degrees of freedom,
which is extraordinarily unlikely without an external constraint.
## 4) Why NOW exists at all
“NOW” is not a metaphysical bead on a timeline; it is:
- the local boundary of causal update in the AMS.
Because:
- changes propagate through the AMS at finite speed,
each location has a “currently settled” configuration plus incoming influences not yet integrated.
So “NOW” is the local state:
- after the last integrated substrate updates,
- before the next arriving updates are absorbed.
In this framing:
- Past = integrated AMS history encoded in present structure.
- Future = not-yet-integrated influences (open possibilities), constrained by present AMS geometry and boundary conditions.
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