Michael,

I think part of our problem in interpeting the many worlds view is our concept of time.

As mobile, intentional organisms, we experience reality as flashes of perception and cognition, in order to navigate our context. This sequential view is magnified by narrating our journeys and building civilizations out of the collective knowledge. Physics effectively codifies the past to future sequence as measures of duration.

The reality is that change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns. Potential, actual, residual. Duration is this physical state, as events form and dissolve.

So time is an effect, like temperature, pressure, color, etc. We could use ideal gas laws to correlate volume with temperature and pressure, 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 the sequence of thought.

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

Time is asymmetric, because action is what is measured and action is inertial. The earth turns one direction, not both. The relative order of a system, entropy, is not what is being measured and is irrelevant.

There can be no “dimension” of time, because the past is consumed by the present, in order to inform it, aka causality.

So consider two billiard balls colliding, which creates an event. As this event recedes into the past, the balls go onto other events. Yet all we can observe and measure are the events precipitating out of the process. The residue. Which is a mere fraction of the actual and the actual is a tiny fraction of the potential.

As our subconscious is up closer to the actual, it is much more aware and sensitive to the process, than just the patterns precipitating out.

It is this need to formulate thoughts, out of this dynamic, that really slows us down, but they have their feedback functions and academia is attached to them, so it is a bit behind the curve.

If we tamp down that need to formulate and objectify everything, we could ride the wave of awareness a bit better. Unfortunately theoretical physics has ridden the wave of formulation out into some alternate reality and will need to seriously crash, before it can reset itself.