So what is materialism?

We've been chasing it through atoms, quanta and now strings, but it seems pretty evident reality is more positive and negative charge, than any actual material substance. The ups and downs.

Consider time.

As these mobile organisms, we have this sentient interface between body and world that functions as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate. So our experience of time is as the point of the present, moving past to future, though the evident reality is change, turning 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.

So energy goes past to future, because the patterns it generates form and dissolve, future to past.

Energy drives the wave, while the fluctuations rise and fall. No tiny strings necessary.

So the energy is not synonymous with the information it's generating, as they go opposite directions of time.

If you base your theory of the material on the information, you miss a very important factor.

Consciousness also goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form and structure go future to past. Though it's the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy, feeding the flame, while the central nervous system sorts the information, signals from the noise.

So it's logical that a thought based construct will focus on the patterns, rather than the process and dynamic manifesting and driving them.

The left, logical side of the brain is the clock and ruler, focusing on the frequencies and amplitudes of the waves creating the forms, while the right, emotional side is the thermostat and barometer, feeling the waves of energy building and receding.

The problem when we apply our linear, goal oriented, reductionist physiology to understanding reality, we tend to be caught up in these self reenforcing feedback loops and spiral into some black hole of ever receding focus, from fundamentalist religion to the bottom line.

Yet synchronization is balanced by harmonization. The structure coalescing in, as the energy radiates out. Like galaxies.

We fluctuate somewhere in the middle.

The anarchies of desire, versus the tyrannies of judgement.