Allison,

That particular observation goes to the issue of time.

As mobile organisms, with a sequential thought process and a narrative based culture, we assume time to be the point of the present, moving past to future, but it is change, turning future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

There is no dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, in order to inform it. Aka, causality and conservation of energy.

Energy being “conserved,” because there is no physical past to recede into, or physical future to arrive from, as it is the changing configuration creating the effect of time. Much like temperature, pressure, color, etc.

So while the process/energy churns along, past to future, the patterns generated go future to past.

Consciousness goes past to future, while thoughts go future to past.

Lives go birth to death, while life goes onto the next generation, shedding the old.

Products go start to finish, while the production line goes the other way, consuming material and expelling product.

The feedback being the patterns define and direct the process. Motor and steering.

So with the film analogy, the projector light goes past to future, like consciousness, while the frames of film go future to past, like thoughts.