The Model Question
The proposed direction is a discrete-photon model where probability-density fields, observer state, and entropy production would emerge from a lower-level graph or event structure.
That is a theory-building target, not a finished theory. The model would have to define its primitive, update rule, conserved quantities, measurement story, and relationship to known quantum and relativistic behavior.
Time And Observer State
The original motivation was to ask why time has the ordinary direction it has: why tomorrow arrives, why records accumulate, and why biological systems age.
A useful physical model has to connect those questions to entropy production and observable state change, not only to a narrative about observers.
What Would Count
A stronger continuation would derive a measurable consequence: a constant, a limit, a simulation result, a known experiment recovered from the model, or a clear failure case. Without that, the idea remains a draft vocabulary.