Knowledge is information. Wisdom is editing.

Reality is that dichotomy of energy pushing out, as form coalesces in.

Galaxies are energy radiating out, as form coalesces in.

Our bodies have the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy driving us on, along with the central nervous system to sort through the form produced, in order to distill out what’s useful. Motor and steering.

Society is that raw social energy bubbling up, as civil and cultural forms coalesce in. Science has the same tension and balance.

If I was to select one factor science is missing most, it would be modeling time as the point of the present, moving past to future, currently codified as measures of duration. Rather than change turning future to past. As in tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

That would make time an effect, like temperature, pressure, color, etc.

It’s just that as mobile organisms, we have this sequential perception process, in order to navigate, further attenuated by narration as the basis of collective knowledge, so temporal progression seems more than effect.

Different clocks run at different rates because they are separate actions. Think metabolism, or frequencies.

Time is asymmetric because what is measured, action, is inertial. The earth turns one direction, not either. The relative order of any larger system is irrelevant.

The present is not so much a point between past and future, but the configuration of this quality called energy. It is conserved, because there is no physical past for it to be left in, or future for it to arrive from.

There is no dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, in order to inform it. Aka, causality.

Temperature and pressure could be correlated with volume, using ideal gas laws, but no one calls them the 5th and 6th dimensions of space, because they are only foundational to our emotions, bodily functions and environment, not our thought process.

Duration is the present, as events unfold. Potential, actual, residual.

So while energy goes past to future forms, the forms go future to past.

In life, the individual goes birth to death, future to past, while the species goes onto the next generation, shedding the old. Consciousness goes from one thought to the next, as these forms come and go. Processes and patterns. Our mind is a process, focused on the patterns.

Passing thoughts from a passing observer.