Knowledge is inherently finite, as well as contexual, otherwise it devolves back into noise.

The only absolute is equilibrium. The flatline, where everything cancels out.

So we fluctuate between everything fading out and everything cancelling out.

Rather than order and chaos, another way to look at reality is energy and form. Galaxies are energy radiating out, as form coaleces in.

We are these mobile organisms, necessitating this sequential process of perception, in order to navigate, so we experience time as the point of the present moving past to future.

The reality is that change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

There is no literal 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, not a dimensionless point between past and future. It creates time, as well as temperature, pressure, colors, sounds. Frequencies and amplitudes. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

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

In terms of a wave, the energy drives it, as the fluctuations rise and fall.

So energy radiates toward infinity, while the forms coalesce toward equilibrium.

In a factory, the product goes start to finish, while the production line goes the other way, consuming material and expelling product. As lives go birth to death, while life moves onto the next generation, shedding the old.

Given consciousness goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form go future to past, it would seem consciousness functions as energy, always probing.

Though it is the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy driving us, while the central nervous system sorts the forms and patterns precipitating out. Desire and judgement.

The function of which is to guide our movements, so we are constantly seeking useful signals in the cacophony.

We only stop when we flatline and the energy dissipates.