Representational time might be a non-binary, gradual concept that switches on incrementally as systems become more self-referential and more alive.

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• Representational Timeframework0.833
  A new kind of time with past/present/future that co-originates with life, enabling memory, anticipation and learning.
• Representation may be a fundamental principle of living systems, but it is difficult to generalize formally because it appears to vanish at the molecular level.claim0.787
  Central open theoretical tension raised in the discussion.
• what is the precise characterization of the perceptual representational format in which information exists as a specific, sustained, globally constitutive structure?question0.765
  Open theoretical problem CIMC acknowledges: precisely characterizing the representational format of perception
• Representational dynamicsconcept0.764
  The evolution of an agent's latent representations over the course of training, shown to align with reward improvement when causal emergence is high.
• What we call a representation is not a correspondence given an external state of affairs, but a consistency with a system's own ongoing maintenance of identity.quote0.762
  Varela quote grounding the paper's final tension between representation and autonomy.
• Deep representations have a special significance in recurrent networks, allowing coordinated behaviour without losing sensitivity to new inputs.claim0.757
  Importance of hierarchical structure for flexible coordination.
• Representational dynamics aligned with reward improvement in most RL tasks.finding0.757
  Secondary empirical result: CE-based representational changes correlate with task success.
• Subjective time, not wall-clock time, is the correct measure for well-being gained from extended life for digital minds running at high speedclaim0.757
  Establishes the normative basis for counting subjective speedup as welfare-relevant