Here is idea to consider;

As these mobile organisms, this sentient interface our body has with its situation functions as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate, so our experience of time is as the point of the present, moving past to future.

The evident reality is that activity and the resulting change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

So there is no 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 manifests this presence, creating time, temperature, pressure, color and sound. Frequencies and amplitudes, rates and degrees.

So the energy, as presence, goes past to future, because the patterns generated come and go, future to past. Energy drives the wave, the fluctuations rise and fall.

Now 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 system processing the energy and feeding the flame, while the nervous system sorts the information and the circulation system is feedback in the middle.

So it raises the question, is consciousness a form of energy?

We have the same problem with energy, as with consciousness, in that our minds are a function of working with the patterns being generated, so when we get reductionist, it seems energy is just the patterns/information, as consciousness is just an effect of information processing.

It should also be noted that galaxies are energy radiating out, as structure coalesces in, but that gets into the Holy Sciences of theoretical physics and one is not allowed to tread there.