Jack,
It is a tough nut to crack. Obviously it’s not just neuroscience either. All of science seems locked in the dichotomy of order versus chaos/randomness, because it is all about the information, not the dynamics generating it.
It goes to the point I keep trying to make about time. That it’s not so much the point of the present, moving past to future, which physics codifies as measures of duration, but change turning future to past. As in tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.
There is no physical dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, in order to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy.
While the physical process of the present churns along, past to future, the patterns generated go future to past. Rising and falling, like waves. So consciousness goes past to future, while thoughts and feelings go future to past. As with the movie projector, the light goes past to future frames, while the frames go future to past.
For most people it’s like trying to explain water to fish, because it does go to the sequential process of perception and the narrative basis of civilization, but when I point out to anyone in the physics fields, that this makes time an effect of activity, similar to temperature, pressure, color, etc. it totally freaks them out to argue with the premise of spacetime geometry.
Given the mathematicians are the current high priests of our scientific culture, it is dogma.
Though epicycles were brilliant math, in their day, but lousy physics. Not because all the details hadn’t been worked out, but because the underlaying premises were wrong.
As I see it, my advantage is that I’ve lived far outside the academic world, mostly raising and training horses and other farm work, so I have had a very in your face experience of how nature functions, but consequently no contacts beyond the internet, with anyone able to push the boundaries.
Though the situation is being pushed to the point of reductio ad absurdum, on so many levels, that the cracks appearing will only grow.
