Standing monotonicity and the physical clock
The Arrow of Time as Standing Monotonicity
Overview This manuscript is Paper I in the AASC Time Non-Primitivity series. The paper treats the arrow of time not as primitive temporal flow, entropy increase, causal influence, information growth, psychological memory, quantum collapse, cosmological initial condition, or clock order, but as a standing-governed quotient structure. The central claim is that temporal directionality is not an independent primitive source. It is the strict non-invertible orientation left after primitive-arrow routes are exhausted...