I think we need to step back and consider various of the conceptual assumptions and mental tools used to understand reality.

For instance, you use the premise of oneness to describe nature, yet just because everything is connected doesn’t make it “one,” merely that connections exist between all the various focal points of our attention. That is otherwise known as networking/contextualization.

Thought is this cycle between reductionism and contextualization, but our focus tends toward the focus of the distilled, where we try to pare an idea down to its essence, but the result is idealism, which we then mistake for the absolute. Meanwhile the opposite of the absolute is the infinite, which is certainly not one, but is the ultimate network.

The primary assumption of Western culture tends to be this monist idealism, where we think we can ultimately extract some universal truth out of reality. Obviously this can be traced back to monotheism and even much further, such as platonic idealism, but it is still a major conceptual assumption to the current view of math as revealing ultimate truths about nature, rather than simply mapping patterns expressed by it. Which is a bit like boiling a body down to its skeleton and assuming you have found the seed from which it sprang. The patterns nature produces are no more or less fundamental than the processes generating them. It is just that our minds are designed to extract the patterns from the process.

Which does go to the nature of time. As mobile organisms, we expereince reality as flashes of perception, in order to navigate, then, as people, narrate our journeys and build civilizations out of the collected knowledge. So we think of time as the point of the present, moving past to future, but the underlaying cause is that change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

Consequently, process goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past. Consciousness goes past to future, while thoughts go future to past. Lives go birth to death, while life moves onto the next generation, shedding the old. Products go start to finish, while the production line goes the other way, consuming material and expelling product.

The feedback is the patterns define and direct the process. Motor and steering.

This dichotomy is best defined as energy(being conserved) and the forms it manifests. Energy radiates out, as form coalesces in. As galaxies are energy radiating out, while mass/form coalesces in. Our bodies have the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy driving us on, along with a central nervous system to sort through the forms precipitating out and referee the emotions bubbling up. Motor and steering.

Society is this dichotomy of essential organic energies bubbling up, as civil and cultural forms coalesce in. Youth and age, liberal and conservative.

Desire versus judgement.

Yet until physics understands that while it may be information all the way down, it is still energy all the way up, it will keep floundering around in the multiverse of order and chaos.

Epicycles were brilliant and predictively effective math, but lousy physics.

The fallacy of monotheism is that a spiritual absolute would be that essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell.

“It” is more the yin and yang, than God Almighty.

The friction makes reality real.