The problem with our understanding of time is that as mobile organisms, necessitating a sequential process of perception, we experience time narratively, as the point of the present moving past to future.

The reality is that change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

There is no literal dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, in order to inform it, aka, causality and conservation of energy.

So time is an effect, like temperature, pressure, color, etc.

As these little funnels of information, we have a reductionist and linear experience of a reality that is equally contextual and cyclical. Nodes in the network.

Process goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past.

Consciousness goes past to future, while thoughts go future to past.

Lives go birth to death, while life moves onto the next generation, shedding the old.

Products go start to finish, while the production line goes the other way, consuming material and expelling product.

The patterns define and direct the process, as the process creates and consumes the patterns. Feedback.

Thermodynamics rules.