CONSCIOUSNESS & TIME: Time as the Plainfield of Conscious Communication A Companion Theory to Tachyonic Wholeness

This paper proposes that time is not a fundamental dimension of the universe — but a functional construct of consciousness. Building on the Tachyonic Wholeness framework, we establish that the act of fragmentation — the moment portions of the Tachyonic Wholeness decelerated below light speed and became localized Fragments — simultaneously necessitated the creation of time as a shared communication protocol.
In the Tachyonic Wholeness, information requires no travel time — all points are non-local, simultaneous, and total. But in a fragmented reality, particles must exchange signals across distance. Those signals require sequence. Sequence requires time. We therefore propose that time is the Plainfield — the structured medium consciousness created to allow Fragments to communicate, relate, and maintain the coherent narrative we call reality.
We examine the boiling water problem as a window into this framework: why does the exchange of energy between molecules always require measurable duration? We propose that duration itself is the signature of fragmentation — the cost of being local in a non-local universe.
Finally, we establish the relationship between consciousness, time, and entropy — proposing that consciousness does not merely exist within time, but actively maintains it, and that without consciousness, time itself would dissolve back into the instantaneous totality of the Tachyonic Wholeness.