Ben,

That goes to my observation about time. That as mobile organisms, our experience of reality as a sequence of perceptions is a function of having to navigate, not fundamental to reality, so time is not so much the point of the present moving past to future, as it is change, turning future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

It's a bit like seeing the cosmos moving east to west, before figuring out the planet is spiraling west to east.

So 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.

So energy is conserved, because it manifests the physical present, which conceptually goes past to future, as the patterns generated go future to past.

Energy drives the wave, while the fluctuations rise and fall.

Now consider that consciousness also goes past to future, while the structure and form of perceptions, emotions and thoughts go future to past.

So I am relating consciousness to energy, for what I see as a logical reason.

Science has the same problem with consciousness as it does with energy. It can only defined it by how it is expressed and manifested, as they are the forms our minds can discern. Yet those forms do emerge from some background field, as well as recede into it. Birth to death. Being in the future to being in the past.

I'm not really proposing anything beyond that, just pointing it out as a coherent relationship.