Tateonian Time: Temporal Emergence from Interaction Loop Dynamics

This paper presents a focused exploration of Tateonian time, a relational interpretation of temporal progression based on the completion of interaction loops between communicating systems. Within this framework, time is not treated as a fundamental background parameter but instead emerges from the dynamics of signal propagation, detection, and integration within networks of interacting nodes. The model describes how temporal ordering may arise from the accumulation of completed interaction cycles, providing a conceptual bridge between information dynamics, complex systems theory, and physical interaction processes. A broader conceptual outline of the Tateonian framework was introduced in a previous preprint. The present paper isolates and develops the temporal component of that framework, examining the mechanism of interaction loop completion and its implications for emergent temporal ordering.