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[Rade]

Not sure where this post is 'going' for you. But for me, your post supports my view that 'time' is nothing more than a 'type of number'.

For me, time is the 'enumeration of motion' of things that exists, it is the number of the motion of things that exist in respect to a 'before' and an 'after'. Since motion is always in existence, so then must be time. Time, then is a type of number, time is WHAT IS COUNTED, not that with which we count--time is that which is intermediate between two moments, between two "nows", a 'before' and an 'after'.

Since time is a type of number, then, as you post, it can become a part of machine computer programs and stored as a number of WHAT IS COUNTED.

I would agree with you that time can be viewed as a type of 'potential'. For me time is a potential between (1) two future 'nows', or (2) a current 'now' and some future 'now'. Time, is the 'potential of enumeration between two nows that each have motion'--time is what is intermediate between the two nows, and is measured only in reference to the extremes of the two nows. The terms {'now', 'before' 'after'} form a set that are within the universal time of that which exist since the beginning of time to the end of time, the same way {'even' and 'odd' and rational, etc.} form a set within number. The 'now' can be said to be 'within universal time' the same way 'odd' can be said to be 'within universal number'.

Consider at the moment A you hit piano key D, then next at some moment B you hit key F then at some moment C you hit key E. At each hit of key is a wave formed with motion that can have a math identity given to it--a wavefunction. Only the moment B is within the 'time' of this event, the {set of events of hitting of three keys}, for the "time" of this event A ----> C is that which is intermediate between moments A and C.

In relation to memory, time then can become a memory. In above example, between moment A and B is some time, a measure of WHAT IS COUNTED as a number, likewise, between moment B and C, and between moment A and C. In this way time can become a memory, it can be the memory (as a number) of WHAT IS COUNTED say between moment A (hit piano key D) and moment B (hit piano key F). And connected to the memory of this time as a number can be any change in the waveform taken by the piano note D created at the moment A, the evolution of the wavefunction of note D during event A ----> B and the memory of how that wavefunction of note D changes at moment B when it begins to interact with note F until it reaches moment C.