I think our problem with time is that as mobile organisms, this sentient interface our body has with its situation functions as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate. So our sense of time is the present moving past to future, when the evident reality is that activity and the resulting change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns. Potential, actual, residual.

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

So no time traveling around the fabric of spacetime, as it's more like a tapestry constantly being woven of strands pulled from what was woven.

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

Energy is "conserved," because it is manifesting this presence, creating time, temperature, pressure, color, sound, as 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. No tiny strings necessary.

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 system processing the energy, feeding the flame, while the nervous system sorts the information, with the circulation system in the middle.

So there is that intellectual focus on the patterns, rather than the processes generating them. Science tends to have a similar problem with energy, as with consciousness, in that it can only be defined in terms of the forms it manifests. and since the mind is all about definition, sees it as primary. thus the idea that sufficient computing power and complexity will becomes conscious.

Rather than information processing as a survival machine, like running or generating toxins. Which should be evident, given how readily any logic is tossed, whenever it contradict's one's needs and beliefs.

Logically a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. The light(energy) shining through the film, than the stories(patterns) playing out on it.

Ideals are not absolutes.