Thus, experiential frames could be composed of different numbers of fundamental temporal atoms, and varying the hardware clock-speed could lead to the same physical computation being spread over more or fewer time atoms. This seems to give us some sense in which experiences and physical computation unfolds in time, albeit in discrete time. However, I took it you wanted to rule that out, and so probably I’ve misunderstood something about how you’re thinking about the relationship between the fundamental time atoms and computations/​experiential frames, or I’ve just got totally the wrong picture?
Interesting! I think you got my picture right, but I am assuming one experiential frame always corresponds to one temporal atom, because one’s mind, which is a physical system, will be in a certain state for each temporal atom. However, since temporal atoms are super short (the Planck time is 5.39*10^-44 s), I guess the vast majority of experiential frames is pretty empty, having welfare close to 0. I suppose it would be possible to accelerate/​decelerate a given experience by orderly elimating/​adding a bunch of empty experiential frames.
What you described seems analogous to what I have in mind if I interpret your experiential frames as ones with welfare meaningfully different from 0. If these are packed closer together (further apart), the experience will be accelerated (decelerated).
Interesting! I think you got my picture right, but I am assuming one experiential frame always corresponds to one temporal atom, because one’s mind, which is a physical system, will be in a certain state for each temporal atom. However, since temporal atoms are super short (the Planck time is 5.39*10^-44 s), I guess the vast majority of experiential frames is pretty empty, having welfare close to 0. I suppose it would be possible to accelerate/​decelerate a given experience by orderly elimating/​adding a bunch of empty experiential frames.
What you described seems analogous to what I have in mind if I interpret your experiential frames as ones with welfare meaningfully different from 0. If these are packed closer together (further apart), the experience will be accelerated (decelerated).