Here is another analysis of time;
We are these little organisms on the surface of this sphere in space. We have evolved the ability to move about our environment, as opposed to flora, which evolved the tendency to root themselves into a particular location.
Because of this intentional motion, we developed the sense of a sequence of perceptions, necessary to observe the environment, as we move through it. Which we are constantly sorting and judging, in order to decide what directions to take.
Then, as humanity, we developed the ability to communicate our actions, journeys and the information and lessons learned from them.
Because of this, we experience this flow of events we call time.
The reality though, is not that the point of the present moves past to future, but 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, aka, causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.
Duration is this physical present, as the events rise and fall, future to past.
Energy is "conserved," because it is the present. Its changing configuration creates this effect called time. As well as temperature, pressure, color, sound. Frequencies and amplitudes.
Time is asymmetric because it is a measure of action and action is inertial. The earth only turns one direction. Entropy is a second order effect and not what is being measured as time.
Ideal gas laws correlate volume with temperature and pressure, but we don't call them the 5th and 6th dimensions of space, because they are only foundational to our emotions, bodily functions and environment, not the sequence of thought.
That different events will be observed in different order, from different locations, is no more consequential than seeing the moon as it was a moment ago, simultaneous with seeing stars as they were years ago. It is the energy being "conserved," not the forms being expressed. It is that these forms change is what creates time!
Different clocks can run at different rates simply because they are separate actions. Think metabolism.
So the energy, as process, goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past.
Think of a wave; The energy is what drives it, while the forms generated, the undulations and fluctuations from which we derive the information of frequencies and amplitudes, give it form and definition. Yet the energy goes onto other waves and vibrations, as the previous fade away.
As these biological organisms we have the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy driving us on, while the central nervous system sorts through and organizes the forms precipitating out.
Consider as well that this sentience of being goes from one thought to the next, as these mental forms come and go. So it would seem consciousness functions like energy, while the forms it is expressed as, thoughts, emotions, are emergent. The mind is the lens through which this flame of cognition shines.
This relationship between energy and form goes to all of reality. Galaxies are energy radiating out, as mass/form coalesces in. Societies are the social energies driving it, while cultural and civil structures give it form. Youth and age, liberal and conservative.
Consider as well that energy radiates toward infinity, while form coalesces toward equilibrium. Both of which are entropic, yet diametrically opposed.
I realize this view is somewhat outside the bounds of current models, but consider that epicycles were brilliant math, as descriptions of our view of the cosmos, but the crystalline spheres were lousy physics, as explanation of the cause. Theoretical physics is making a similar mistake, as it lets its mathematical descriptions guide its physical explanations.
Yet the mind prefers form over energy, because it is definition and that's what the mind does.
