Consider that we are mobile organisms. Which logically explains why our sentience coalesces as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate.

So our experience of time is as the present moving past to future. Physics codifies it as measures of duration.

In order for societies to function, there has to be some collective understanding to the world, so we tell stories to one another and those with the most resonance become the most influential.

The reality though, is that change turns future to past. tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns. duration is the present, as the events rise and fall.

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

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

Ideal gas laws correlate volume with temperature and pressure, but they are only foundational to our emotions and bodily functions, not the sequence of perception.

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

When society tries getting everyone following the same narratives, obeying the same rules, using the same measures, it tends to become a race and everyone is on rabbit time, though the turtle is still plodding along, long after the rabbit has died.

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

Energy drives the wave, the fluctuations rise and fall.

Consciousness also goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form and structure go future to past. Though it's the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy, while the central nervous system sorts the patterns. Signals from the noise.

So there is a tendency to think in terms of the patterns, order and chaos, rather than the dynamics driving and creating them.

Waves tend to either synchronize, which is centripetal, or harmonize, which is centrifugal.

So there are nodes and networks, organisms and ecosystems.

Our conscious state functions as an interface between the body and its world, so it has to bridge that gap, between the things swirling inward and those pushing out.

Galaxies are energy radiating out, as structure coalesces in.

We fluctuate in the middle, between everything canceling out and everything fading out.

That's where time exists.

March to the beat of your own drummer. Harmonize, rather than synchronize.