One big step will be when we come to grips with the fact this sentient interface between body and world functions as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate, given our mobility is our most salient feature, might mean our experience of time is as the present moving past to future, but the evident reality is that 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.

Energy is "conserved," because it manifests this presence, creating time, temperature, pressure, color and sound. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

Energy goes past to future, because the patterns it generates form and dissolve, 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 giving it form and structure go future to past.