The point I keep arguing endlessly is our perception of time is biased. As these mobile organisms, our experience is as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate, so we think of time as the present moving past to future, which even physics codifies as measures of duration and correlates with measures of distance, to create spacetime.

The evident reality is that change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns. Potential, actual residual. Duration is the present, as the events come and go.

So 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. As such it goes past to future, by generating the patterns that go future to past.

In terms of a wave, the energy drives it, while the fluctuations rise and fall.

Now consciousness also goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts go future to past. Suggesting consciousness functions as energy, yet it is the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy, feeding the flame, while the central nervous system processes/sorts and orders the information.

Remember that the world of academia is all about the information, signals from the noise. So the paradigm is order and chaos. Yet this provides an emergent, cyclical way to consider it, as feedback between energy and form, desire and judgement.

Even galaxies are energy radiating out, as mass/form coalesces in, in a cosmic convection cycle.

I could go on, but it seems getting discussion going about this initial point is difficult. It just doesn't fit in anyone's frame.