The irony is that we spend our lives seeking order and structure, but once we find them, immediately insist on transcending them.

The anarchy of desire versus the tyranny of judgement.

The problem is time. As these mobile organisms, we experience reality as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate, thus time as this flow from past to future. Which we collectively fashion as narrative and assume the ending is the purpose. Fate.

The reality is that change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns. The past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Cause becomes effect.

So the energy driving the process is constantly regenerating forms, thus it goes past to future, while the patterns go future to past. Energy drives the wave, as the fluctuations rise and fall.

It is just that our heart and gut process the energy, feed the flame, while the head sorts the information.

So consciousness goes past to future, as thoughts go future to past.

The effect is that while the patterns seem determined, because, well they are patterns, the process generating them only functions as the present, so the act of determination only occurs in the moment.

Yes, our immediate motor functions are not directly controlled by our thought process, because it is too slow. We would be dead. The function of thought is to process all the information, in order that our future responses are better informed.

The mind is referee to the emotions.