Manuel,

In response to your post on free will, I made a comment about our perception of time. That it is 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. Potential, actual, residual.

Duration is this physical state, as events form and dissolve.

https://medium.com/@johnbrodixmerrymanjr/manuel-c3410581b35

So rather than time as a dimension, there is just this physical state, constantly reconfiguring itself.

Now consider how this works; Think of two billiard balls striking. This creates an event, which recedes into the past, while the balls continue onto other events. Basically they go opposite directions of time. Yet all we perceive/measure/observe are those events, which fall into the past, yet we know everything, us, balls, table, etc. go onto the future. But we can’t observe that, as it hasn’t occurred, to be observed. It’s like a rolling wave that hasn’t crested, so we can’t know its frequency and amplitude.

So there is that split between energy and the information it expresses, as they go opposite directions of time.

Our consciousness goes onto the future, while our thoughts and perceptions, as they form out of the emotions and impulses, recede into the past.

Our bodies are composed of the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems, processing the energy to drive us on, along with the central nervous system to sort through the information emerging, feeding it back into steering our course of action.

I think if this dichotomy, between energy and form/information, were given some consideration, it might open a few doors. Trying to argue it is information all the way down, ‘it from bit,’ totally ignores the underlaying dynamic, from which this form emerges. Just look at some of the intellectual contortions involved, such as time is only asymmetric because of entropy.

Motion is inertial and that is what is measured. The earth turns one direction, not both. The relative order of a system is irrelevant, because that is not what is being measured.