Just stay away from the complicated stuff.

People think the answers are in more complexity, but the simple is far more sublime. We can identify with the chicken, but not the egg.

Galaxies are energy radiating out, as structure coalesces in.

People have the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy driving us on, feeding the flame, while the central nervous system sorts the information, signal from the noise.

So we think it's all about order and chaos, but it's really energy and form.

As these mobile life forms, our experience is a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate, so our concept of time is as the point of the present moving past to future. Physics codifies it 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 coalesce and dissolve, rise and fall.

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

Energy is "conserved," because it is the present, creating time, as well as temperature, pressure, color and sound. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

Different clocks can run at different rates simply because they are separate actions. Think metabolism.

That culture is about getting everyone following the same rules, believing the same stories, using the same measures, it might seem like there should be some universal, Newtonian flow of time, but it's rabbit time, turtle time, etc.

The turtle is still plodding along, long after the rabbit has died.

That life can be so diverse and so entwined, is because everything doesn't march to the beat of the same drummer. Multicultural, not monoculture.

Time is asymmetric, because it is a measure of action and action is inertial. The earth only turns one direction. Entropy is a second order effect and not what is measured.

That different events can be observed in different order from different locations is no more consequential than seeing the moon as it was a moment ago, simultaneous with seeing stars as they were years ago.

It's the energy that's conserved, not the information. That the information changes is time.

So energy, as present, goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past.

Energy drives the wave, the fluctuations rise and fall. No tiny strings necessary.

Consciousness also goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form and structure go future to past. So consciousness functions as an energy, while all its expressions are form.

Basically shadows on the wall.

Waves tend to both synchronize, which is centripetal/path of least resistance, as well as harmonize, which is centrifugal, as the energy radiates out across the cosmos. Both entropic.

Black holes and black body radiation.

Though the black holes have quasars as giant lasers shooting out the poles and lasers are synchronized light waves.

So, nodes and networks, organisms and ecosystems, particles and fields.

Since our consciousness functions as the interface between our body and its world, we are both node and network. It's all in your mind like the internet is all in your phone. Those floaters are other people's consciousness.....

You didn't even need to go to four years of college and graduate school for this, but then the system would break down, if we were not indebted to become confused.

Our puppet masters need the invisible strings.