I think you do need to be as objective as possible, before zeroing in on the subjective.

What is morality? Are good and bad some cosmic conflict between the forces of righteousness and evil, or the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental? The 1/0 of sentience.

Such that moral codes are devices and structures we use to distinguish our culture and community as a social organism in the larger ecosystem.

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.

When we assume the ideal to be absolute, it creates all sorts of conflicts, as everyone assumes their aspirations to be beyond debate, rather than having to be earned.

Life is emergent. We exist between the anarchies of desire, driving us on and the tyrannies of judgement, deciding our journey. Not all desires are healthy, nor all decisions wise, but we don't learn otherwise.

There is no dimension of time, as the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect. It is feedback loops all the way down.

Life only appears linear and goal oriented, because we are these mobile, tactile organisms, with fairly primitive powers of abstraction, that have come to exponentially dominate our sense of reality.

Form and energy. Energy goes to the future, as form recedes into the past.

Consciousness goes to the future, as thoughts go to the past.