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

It's bit like seeing the sun moving east to west, because it's the earth turning west to east.

There is no dimension of time, because the past is being consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.

The energy is conserved, because it is manifesting this presence, creating time, temperature, pressure, color and sound, as frequencies and amplitudes, rates and degrees.

So the present goes past to future, because the patterns generated go future to past.

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

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.

Given culture and civilization are a product of narrative and history, that linear flow of time is foundational to all of society. Especially academia, as they are tasked with absorbing and building on prior observations.

Which goes to some of the basic flaws in humanity, as those prior concepts originated from smaller knowledge bases, so there is a strong tendency to patch prior assumptions, beliefs, theories, than question/falsify them.

Religion, for instance, is like the childhood memories of culture. Obviously foundational to all that came after, but still should be taken with a few grains of salt.

https://medium.com/@johnbrodixmerrymanjr/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-western-mind-906dc73cffe2