I think we only scratch the surface of our cognitive constructs. One I keep trying to point out is that as these mobile organisms, we have this sequential process of perception, necessary to navigate, then, as humanity, we built civilization out of cultural narratives. So our experience of time is as the point of the present, moving past to future. Which physics codifies as measures of duration.

The reality is that change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns. Duration is the present, as the events come and go.

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

So time is an effect, like temperature, pressure, color, sound. Frequencies and amplitudes. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

Energy is "conserved," because it is the present, not some dimensionless point between past and future.

So while we are sequential and linear, reality is more thermodynamic feedback loops. Yesterday doesn't cause today. The sun shining on a spinning planet creates this cycle of days and nights.

The energy is cause. As process, it goes past to future, while the patterns it generates go future to past. In terms of a wave, the energy drives it, while the ripples rise and fall, come and go.

Even galaxies are energy radiating out, toward infinity, as structure coalesces in, toward equilibrium. Both entropic.

Yet consciousness goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts go future to past, but it is the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy, feeding the flame within, while the central nervous system sorts the patterns and information precipitating out. Our ability to comprehend is based on the static forms we extract from the dynamic process, or it would all white out.

I could go on with this and have, in various medium essays, but I find a lot of people really don't want to dig down that far into the psyche. It's much easier to stick to the surface. Yet much of the chaos on the surface is due to these underlaying processes.