One aspect of physics that is both an artifact of the mind and shines some perspective back onto the mind is the formulation of time.
As mobile organisms, this sentient interface our body has with its situation functions as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate, so our experience of time is the present going past to future. It is the basis of culture and civilization, as narrative and history.
As knowledge is a process of building on and with prior conceptual constructs, it is foundational to most branches of academia.
The evident reality is that activity and the resulting change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.
There is no dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.
No time traveling around the fabric of spacetime. It is like a tapestry being woven of strands pulled from what was woven.
The energy is conserved, because it manifests this presence, creating time, temperature, pressure, color and sound, as frequencies and amplitudes, rates and degrees.
So the energy goes past to future, because the patterns generated come and go, future to past. Energy drives the wave, the fluctuations rise and fall. No tiny strings necessary.
Consciousness also goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form and structure go future to past. Suggesting consciousness manifests as a sort of energy.
The digestive system processes the energy, feeding the flame, while the nervous system sorts the patterns, signal from the noise.
Which then tends to concentrate our cognitive efforts toward the particularities of the patterns, rather than the dynamics driving them, as science tends to have a similar problem with energy, as with consciousness, in that it can only be described in terms of the forms expressed.
So then we get into these reductionist feedback loops, looking for that ultimate point of focus, from the atom to the individual. Which if one is to step back just a little, are nodes in networks.
Given that conceptually encompassing networks is an oxymoron, maybe the basic relationship between the node and the network should be explored.
Not to get too deeply into it, but my sense is the essence of the node is synchronization. Everything on the same wavelength. While the essence of the network is harmonization. Everything balancing out.
Organisms and ecosystems. "Entangled particles."
Galaxies exist as nodes in the universal network and the basic dynamic driving them would be the energy radiating out, as the structure coalesces in....
Signals and noise.
