I think the key to better understanding the world and our mind is to examine our sense of time;

As 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. Physics codifies it as measures of duration.

The evident reality though, is that activity and the resulting change 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.

It's like a tapestry being woven of strands being pulled from what was woven.

Energy is conserved, because it manifests this presence, creating time, temperature, pressure, 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.

Suggesting consciousness manifests as an energy.

Though it is the digestive system processing the energy, feeding the flame, while the nervous system sorts the patterns, signals from the noise, with the circulation system as feedback in the middle.

Science has the same basic problem with energy, as with consciousness, in that they are defined by the forms they manifest. Thus this assumption of reality as information and with sufficient information processing, computers would become conscious.

Yet it would seem the mind, the brain, is more referee and focal point of the energy of the emotions and desires rising up, than their source.

The anarchies of desire, versus the tyrannies of judgement.

Galaxies are energy radiating out, as structure coalesces in.