Are there any issues our current paradigms are overlooking? Time.

As mobile organisms, this sequence of perceptions by which we experience our environment is an adaption to navigation. So our concept of time is as the point of the present, moving past to future. Collected as narrative and codified by the sciences as measures of duration.

The reality is that change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns. Duration is the present as the events coalesce and dissolve.

There is no literal dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.

Different clocks can run at different rates simply because they are separate actions. Think metabolism.

That culture is about everyone using the same languages and measures, following the same rules, it might seem like there should be some universal flow of time, but it's rabbit time, turtle time, etc.

Nature is so diverse and integrated, because everything doesn't march to the beat of the same drummer.

Time is asymmetric, because it is a measure of action and action is inertial. The earth only turns one direction.

Energy is conserved, because it is the present, creating time, as well as temperature, pressure, color and sound. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

As present, energy goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past. Energy drives the wave, the fluctuations rise and fall. No tiny strings necessary.

Consciousness also goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form and structure go future to past. Though it is the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy, feeding the flame, while the central nervous system sorts the information, signals from the noise.

So there is the intellectual habit of defining reality in terms of order and chaos, basically the known and unknown, rather than energy and form.

Even though galaxies are energy radiating out, as structure coalesces in.

This is because the synchronization of form is centripetal, while the radiating out of energy causes a centrifugal effect that harmonizes across the field.

So, nodes and networks, organisms and ecosystems, particles and fields.

We keep digging ever further into the details and complexities of the information, while the larger reality is more elementally sublime.

The information is shadows on the wall, effects of the energy.

As Emerson said, "We are but thickened light."