The Missing Clock: Why Intelligence Needs Time

Send us Fan Mail Every living organism on Earth keeps time. Not metaphorically. Not approximately. From single-celled cyanobacteria running a three-protein molecular oscillator to the nested circadian hierarchies governing mammalian physiology, intrinsic timekeeping is not a feature of complex life. It is a prerequisite for life itself. Modern AI has no such clock. Transformers encode position, not time. Recurrent networks carry state but generate no rhythm. Reinforcement learning agents step...