Carver Mead also observed the quantum as analog;
People, as mobile organisms, with a sequential process of perception, are linear and goal oriented, while nature is cyclical, reciprocal and feedback generated. For every action....
One of our problems in understanding nature is time. As we experience reality as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate, then having evolved a narrative based culture, we think of time as the point of the present, moving past to future, though the reality is that change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.
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.
So time is an effect of activity, like temperature, pressure, color sound. Frequencies and amplitudes.
Energy is "conserved," because it is the present. Its changing configuration creates time.
So energy, as process, goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past.
What drive a wave is the energy, yet what we perceive are the undulations, rising and falling, of the energy passing through.
Consider that conciousness goes past to future, while the patterns it generates, perceptions, thoughts, emotions, rise and fall, future to past.
Though it is the heart and gut processing and circulating the energy driving us, while the head and nervous system sorts and organizes the forms precipitating out. Motor and steering.
We might think of consciousness as this neutral awareness, but consider the mind at night, when the schedule says you should be asleep, but the mind darts around, looking for information to focus its attention. That flame within, seeking form, then seeking to transcend it.
The anarchy of desire versus the tyranny of judgement, going in everlasting circles.
Lives going birth to death, while life moves onto the next generation, shedding the old.
Galaxies as energy radiating toward infinity, while form coalesces toward equilibrium. Both entropic.
