Actually there is a grain of logic there.

Consider that we experience time as the point of the present moving past to future, while the physical reality is that change turns future to past.

There is no literal dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present. Causality and conservation of energy.

So energy, as process, goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past.

Consider that with a wave, the energy is what drives it, while the forms, the fluctuations, rise and fall. Come and go.

Consciousness also goes past to future, while the patterns it manifests, the perceptions, emotion, thoughts, go future to past.

So it might be conceptually useful to consider consciousness as a form of energy.

Remember science has a similar problem with energy, as it does with consciousness, in that as it can only be defined in terms of the forms it expresses, it tends to be lost in all the quantification and qualification.

As these biological organisms, we have the digestive, respiratory and circulatory system processing the energy driving us on, while the central nervous system sorts through the forms precipitating out. Possibly suggesting the mind is more lens and filter of this flame within, than its source.

You ever try getting to sleep and wonder why the mind keeps shuffling through its boxes of stuff to think about? Energy?

Would you prefer consciousness to be just a neutral observer? Remember it's energy that drives the process.

Galaxies are energy radiating out, toward infinity, while form coaleces in, toward equilibrium, both entropic. Creating these cosmic convection cycles. We are a feedback loop between everything cancelling out and everything fading out. The physical world is as profound as the sentience experiencing it.