One issue to consider is our concept of and relationship with time.

As mobile organisms, this sequence of perceptions by which we experience our situation is a logical consequence of having to navigate.

So our concept of time is as the point of the present, moving past to future. Culture collects it as narrative and physics codifies it as measures of duration.

The reality is that change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns. Duration is the present, as the events form and dissolve.

There is no literal 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 is the present, creating time, as well as temperature, pressure, color and sound. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

So the energy, as present, goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past. Energy drives the wave, the fluctuations rise and fall.

Consciousness also goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form and structure go future to past.

Though it is the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy, feeding the flame, while the central nervous system sorts the information, signals from the noise.

Consequently we try to explain our perceptions in terms of the patterns, rather than the processes generating them. Order and chaos/signal and noise, rather than energy and form.

Even though galaxies are energy radiating out, as structure coalesces in.