I'm touchy about that. I think it is a seriously under-appreciated point. Consider that our reality is this dynamic state we refer to as the present, the situation of which is the result of all those prior presents, yet our seemingly most advanced understanding of it is as a linear dimension/geometric projection, extrapolated from our modeling of space. Don't you see that as an example of mathematical egotism?

Doesn't it make more sense to you as change turning future to past?

Just as one example of how it would affect debate, both philosophic and scientific, consider the issue of determinism, if we understand the act of determination can only occur in the present?

It's not like I'm trying to copyright the idea. Personally I don't like beating my head on walls and trying to get people to look at things differently is something I've come to realize can only really be done generationally. So it's not like I'm really tilting at windmills, but just occasionally surprised others don't see it as interesting and significant as I see it.

Math is our mental habit, of building models and making them religions, reaching its climax. This stick figure reality will have to seriously crash and burn, before people begin to realize it obscures as much as it illuminates. It's an evolutionary step.