I think the biggest stumbling block in making sense of reality is how we perceive time.

A 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 present moving past to future. It is the basis of culture and civilization, as narrative and history.

As such, it is foundational to the accumulation of human knowledge.

Yet for those of us who prefer experiencing this reality first hand, it is activity and the resulting change that turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

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.

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

That culture is about synchronizing society as a larger super organism, using the same languages, rules, measures, it might seem there is one universal flow of time, but nature is so diverse and yet integrated because everything doesn't march to the beat of the same drummer.

Energy is conserved, because it manifests this presence creating time, temperature, color and sound. Frequencies and amplitudes, rates and degrees.

The energy 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.

The digestive system processes the energy, feeding the flame, while the nervous system sorts the patterns and information. The circulation system is feedback in the middle.

Given galaxies are energy radiating out, as structure coalesces in, it is a basic relationship.

So then consider how we create all these different views, schools, theories, philosophies, ideologies, political movements, even religions;

Knowledge is the signals extracted from the noise.

So what distinguishes signal from noise? How do we put these conceptual structures together?

That information that resonates and reverberates, eventually synchronizing with our prior senses, thoughts, beliefs, even those subconsciously held, are what our minds naturally absorb.

Which is a centripetal process, necessarily gathering inward and strengthening the original systems and joining together with similar models and frames.

Yet one thing that should be evident in this process is that there can be no universal system or structure, given all the excess noise, energy, information excluded.

If we did try to include all the information of the territory into the map, it would revert back to noise. Whiteout.

No only that, but often conflicts, contradictions, polarizations, tensions, etc. do get included in various systems and it weakens them and they break apart.

Then some systems work better in situations, where other systems might be advantageous in other situations. More a game of rock, paper scissors, than winner take all.

So understand the strengths, weaknesses,, limitations, definitions, contexts, etc of whatever intellectual tool you try to use and generally keep a tool box of various such devices for different situations.

We all rise and fall. Waves across infinity.

The anarchies of desire versus the tyrannies of judgement. Motor and steering. Heart and head.