I’m with you on this, but I think that exploring the basic dichotomy of energy and form explicates significant aspects of this dynamic.
Consider that galaxies are energy radiating out, as form coalesces in. Of course, we call this mass and gravity, but there is lots of unexplained gravity/dark matter, ie, coalescing form. The result looks to be a cosmic convection cycle.
As biological entities we have the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy driving us on, versus the central nervous system sorting, ordering and judging the forms coalescing out, further condensing and distilling them.
Also the issue of time; As these mobile organisms navigating the surface of this planet, our process of perception is sequential, then we have this narrative based culture, so we experience and assume time to be the point of the present, moving past to future, which even physics codifies as measures of duration.
The fact is that change turns future to past. Potential, actual, residual. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns. Duration is this physical state, as the events rise and fall, like so many waves.
There is no literal dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, in order to inform it, aka, causality and conservation of energy.
So process goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past.
As consciousness goes past to future, while thoughts go future to past.
Which does go to the issue of consciousness seemingly distinct from thought, but it also suggest consciousness functions as energy. While the forms energy takes tend to be waves, thus coming and going, that which drives them is “conserved,” thus always and only present, as consciousness functions..
I wrote an essay on this;
Though it tends toward more social and political ramifications and the people more interested in those, tend not to really care to explore the underlaying dynamic.
We do skate on the surface of this reality, building belief systems out of the information we are fed and acquire, so it seems the more educated people are, the less willing to examine the forms that education takes. Just try pointing out to someone with a theoretical physics background, that as an effect of activity, time is more like temperature, pressure, color, than it is of space, if you want a dose of invective. (Frequencies and amplitudes)
It seems change has to be a generational thing, as the old forms flake off and the new ones have to chose whether to continue, or react to those lessons being handed down.
That our world has gone so far out on the ledge, with everything from unsustainable debt, to multiverses, the potential for serious paradigm shift does exist. Though I’m not holding my breath that I’ll be around to see it.
