Question;

Is time the point of the present moving past to future, or is it change turning future to past?

We are mobile organisms with a sequential process of perception, in order to navigate, so we experience the former, but the later is much more efficiently explainable.

In which case, time is an effect, like temperature, pressure, color and sound. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

Given that all of human culture and civilization is based on narrative flow, this insight might be seriously consequential.

We are linear, goal oriented creatures in a cyclical, circular, feedback generated reality.