Yogacara

Time is emergent and infinite — it is a mental construction (vikalpa) projected by consciousness (vijñāna) rather than an independently existing reality. Time is continuous and cyclical: samsara extends without beginning through endless rounds of rebirth. It is uni-directional in ordinary experience but ultimately empty (śūnya) of inherent existence. In the transformation of consciousness (āśraya-parāvṛtti), the practitioner sees through the constructed nature of time.

Space is emergent and infinite — it is a representation (vijnapti) produced by the storehouse consciousness (ālaya-vijñāna) rather than an independently existing container. Curvature is undefined because space has no mind-independent geometric character. Space is non-local in the sense that spatial experience is internal to consciousness. The external world as spatially extended is "consciousness-only" (vijñaptimātra).

Matter is emergent and finite — it is a projection of consciousness, not an independently existing substance. The Yogacara motto "vijñaptimātra" (consciousness-only) means that what appears as external matter is actually a manifestation of the storehouse consciousness. Matter is non-conserved in the ultimate sense: it is empty (śūnya) of independent existence. It is non-local because material appearances arise within consciousness, not in an external spatial container.

Infinite and emergent — energy is a conceptual construction (prajnapti) arising within consciousness; it has no existence outside the transformations of the alaya-vijnana and is reducible to the maturation and exhaustion of karmic seeds. Conservation: Non-conserved — since all phenomena are impermanent (anitya) constructions of consciousness, energy can arise and cease without any conservation law; what appears as conservation is merely the regular patterning of seed-maturation. Dispersibility: Irreversible — the karmic process moves in one direction: seeds mature, produce effects, and are exhausted; only the radical transformation of enlightenment (ashraya-paravrtti) can halt this one-way process, but it does not reverse it.

Information is mind-only (vijnapti-matra) — the external informational world is a construction of consciousness. There is no information 'out there' independent of the mind that projects it. Information is emergent from consciousness. It is non-conserved because the seeds (bija) in the storehouse consciousness (alaya-vijnana) ripen and exhaust themselves. It is continuous because the stream of consciousness is unbroken.