Hector,
Thank you for your interest in my essay and how it deals with time. I'm not sure that I fully understand what you are saying, but if you are saying that time really follows from the motion of matter (rather than the other way around), then I think we are in general agreement. I am suggesting that one may parameterize particle trajectories in terms of rotation frequencies of fundamental quantum fields.
Incidentally, I also have Einstein's "Ideas and Opinions" on my bookshelf, and I found the passage you mentioned on page 364 (not 354) in my (very old) edition. Further down on the page, he says, "The formation of the concept of the material object must precede our concepts of time and space". That seems to be more "Bit from It" than "It from Bit".
I will go back and read your essay more carefully.
Alan
Dear Alan:
I am referring here at your july15 post: you are a physicist I am not, maybe sound incredible to you and most physicists, that to understand that "time" is not an entity with physical existence like gravity or inertia, you don't need to know mathematics or physics, which as a discipline the discipline came to believe "time" it as their own. "Time" is just a remnant word, probably representing a very important concept related to the measurement of "motion" from which mankind forgot it meaning, as Einstein call pre-scientific concepts. What you have at page 364 "The formation of the concept of the material object must precede our concepts of time and space". Being the so called "time" "motion" as I think I demonstrate in the essay. To exist "motion" must be something that's moves (material object) to exist "space concept" also has to be (materials objects) as he said boxes. Look in your book around 20 or 25 lines above you would find what I concrete as: "Space, time, and event, are free creations of human intelligence, tools of thought" As you can see he knew that "time" was a man creation. What he did no know was what we measure with the clock, that it is "motion" one of the most foundational things of physics, about this is my essay. When this is understood , will shake physics. You said "I will go back and read your essay more carefully" please do that slow with attention and always thinking that there are not prove what so ever of "time" physical existence. If you do that you would be the second person in this world to know that the so called "time" is "motion".
My very best whishes
Héctor