G
Geometric
Proper time, metric, curvature, worldlines, and clock rates.
PROPOSED SYNTHESIS / TEMPORAL LAYERS
Multi-Layer Temporal Architecture
Human language compresses several temporal functions into one word. MLTA separates them, maps their interfaces, and asks which are fundamental, emergent, effective, or observer-dependent.
Eight Temporal Layers
C
Causal
Influence, ordering, reachability, horizons, and domains of dependence.
Θ
Thermodynamic
Entropy, irreversibility, free-energy gradients, and macroscopic direction.
Q
Quantum
Evolution parameters, clocks, correlations, measurement order, and quantum causality.
I
Informational
Records, provenance, memory, sequence, and distributed logical time.
B
Biological
Rhythm, metabolism, development, repair, aging, and organismal continuity.
X
Experiential
Duration, passage, presentness, memory, anticipation, and temporal selfhood.
K
Cosmological
Cosmic time, expansion, horizons, low-entropy boundary conditions, and deep-time history.
Known Couplings
Geometry → Biology
Biological elapsed time follows local proper time, subject to environment and physiology.
Thermodynamics → Information
Stable records require physical interaction, amplification, persistence, and entropy cost.
Information + Biology → Experience
Memory-bearing neural systems create lived temporality without proving a universal moving present.
Failure test: if MLTA produces no quantitative cross-layer relationship beyond existing theories, it remains a useful taxonomy rather than new physics.