I'm slightly exaggerating here, but T. Padmanabhan's 2009 paper, cited here a few posts ago, can be interpreted as identifying: 1) Temperature = 1/Time after an analytic continuation to complex values of time. See "Analytic Continuation" as keywords on the internet (in Complex Analysis). This would explain thermodynamics as geometry or as distortion/motion of geometry in an additional way, but it also has relevance to knowledge/information since we know that: 2) 1/distance = a "proximity function". See my discussions of (2) here in some of my recent posts. Probable Causation/Influence (PI) is a type of proximity function, although not exactly the type of (2), since it increases as geometric distance in Euclidean-type space(time) decreases and vice versa in [0, 1] or [0, 1] x [0, 1] and so on. Osher Doctorow Other posts:
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