Maybe it's an illusion?

We are mobile organisms, so our sentience coalesces as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate, creating this experience of time as the present moving past to future, but it's really change turning future to past.

Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

There is no dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present. Cause becomes effect.

So it's one big feedback loop. The process goes past to future, while the patterns go future to past.

Energy drives the wave, the ripples rise and fall.

Lives go birth to death, while life moves onto the next, shedding the old.

Consciousness goes past to future, while thoughts go future to past.