The basic problem with time is that 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 this presence going from one event to the next, past to future.

The evident reality though, is that activity and the resulting change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

Given that human knowledge and civilization is based on that narrative flow, of building on what prior generations created, as they built on what their ancestors created, going back to the faint dawn of history, this "flow" of time is foundational to that worldview.

There is no dimension of time, as the actual dynamic is of this past being 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, as frequencies and amplitudes, rates and degrees.

So the energy goes past to future, because the patterns generated coalesce and dissolve, 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. Suggesting consciousness manifests as energy.

The digestive system processes the energy, feeding the flame, while the nervous system sorts the patterns, signals from the noise, with the circulation system in the middle.

The future to not determined, because the act of determination occurs as the present. The future is not fully computed.

The premise of determinism is based on the assumption of a universal model, map, frame, etc. yet the function of such systems precludes universality, as too much information and the signal is lost back in the noise. Whiteout.

They break down over infinities.

Given information arrives from all directions to every point at the speed of light, such an overall omniscience would have to transcend that limitation as well.