It feels weird to me to set time as “index of the current observation in the sorted order” rather than as “magnitude of the current observation”.
Like, I feel like whatever an observer perceives as “the passage of time” must be something in the physical universe, something that changes from one state to the “next”. But here there’s nothing to distinguish states except their magnitude, so it feels like cheating to say that the same amount of time passes regardless of the magnitude gap.
It feels weird to me to set time as “index of the current observation in the sorted order” rather than as “magnitude of the current observation”.
Like, I feel like whatever an observer perceives as “the passage of time” must be something in the physical universe, something that changes from one state to the “next”. But here there’s nothing to distinguish states except their magnitude, so it feels like cheating to say that the same amount of time passes regardless of the magnitude gap.