Pointers

Software is comprised of logical branching and switching networks that utilize short and long-term memory transactions in order to manipulate the input, analysis, and output of information. By no coincidence, this is also how the neural switching networks of our Brain compile information and how the sequential passage of Time controls the Material world. The Universe itself contains an Operating System, an invisible "control and feedback" software process hidden in the Space that surrounds us, a process that underlies the passage of Time.
The Universal OS's invisible switching network is also controlling the ability of Atoms to assemble into intelligent Molecular structures and DNA into living things. Thus, Consciousness IS the passage of Time.