As a concept, time makes sense. We think we understand it. But in practice, it becomes unclear, and the minutes, hours, and days often blend together. It’s like we don’t have any internal clock or sense of time. We have a clockless mind. We only seem to understand two states: the present (“now”), and some vague version of all future time (“not

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To me the Clock and the Library capture two different aspects of time. The Clock is Newtonian time, physical time—reversible, regular, steady. The Library is information time. It points in a direction, it grows, it’s unpredictable. One of the fundamental mysteries of the universe to me is how one kind of time can be made out of the other—how

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