The relations of objects to each other seem determined by their relations in time and space. However, if everything is information and time and space do not exist except as information, and interactions in the universe happen not between objects in space and time but between their information, then they would really be determined by the relationship of their information with each other, so that objects that are distant in time and space could still be close to each other if their information is similar. In this case, the many-worlds hypothesis could make sense after all: each universe would just be a system of information and each could be connected to any number of other systems of information at the same time, like an infinite crossroads of possible universes.
Even so, time and space form the basis of all information, because information cannot be conceived by our consciousness in any other way, and our own consciousness is after all part of the universe and should act in much the same way. Because they form the basis of information, information cannot transcend time and space and things cannot interact without some basis in time and space. Time and space may be just information, but without time and space there can be no information at all, and any proximity between two things is plotted through time and space.
Or perhaps space is how we conceive just some of the connections between things, and there are other connections we can't conceive of at all. But if those connections were at all relevant to us, then they would affect us somehow, and we would've evolved a sense for those effects. Unless the effect is so total that it can't be sensed at all, because it doesn't just cause a minor change in energy that can be picked up by our nerves but changes our entire universe altogether — like moving to a different timeline.
Somehow there is a connection between one moment and another, and either this is just one moment changing itself or it's the present moving from one moment to another, from one system of information to another, like an impulse going from neuron to neuron. Both require change, but of different sorts.
The final question, however, is just how this would make a difference to how causality would work for us. If there isn't any, then it doesn't matter and both models are just ways of looking at things and are equally true. But the latter suggests the possibility of interaction between different possible timelines, allowing for absurd quantum theories like superposition meaning that something is in two states at once, rather than in an unknown mixed state. If time and space are just information, it's not impossible… but it would require there to be extra information ABOUT time and space and the connections between timelines, which would somehow have to be contained in another form of time and space, a frame, an akasha field…
This really only begs the question what time and space are: ultimately, they would still form the basis of information in this akasha field, and all it would mean is that the universe is a simulation run from another universe, one where time and space are still indivisible. This makes everything needlessly complicated and doesn't solve anything, so I'm sentencing it to beheading by Occam's razor. Time and space do not need a frame to be supported, rather they support themselves, they're self-contained, just like whatever frame time and space would have.
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