The Actualized Arrow of Time

Milo Djonovic Jarrod Milo Jonovich

Published Jul 6, 2026• 0 citations

Abstract

This paper is the third technical installment of Consciousness as an Actualization Operator in a Substrate Dependent Universe, and its specific purpose is to develop an open quantum systems derivation route and toy model proving ground for the consciousness operator, metric, pointer algebra, and substrate scalar employed in the companion collapse and time papers

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21222675

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