The signals we extract from the noise are not necessarily the most logical, but those that synchronize and mesh with our prior models and beliefs, re-enforcing both. Then we bond with those on similar wavelengths.

Yet as these vortices we exist in that larger sea of noise/energy, from which we rise and to which we fall. So the organism is synchronization, while the ecosystem is harmonization.

Free will is an oxymoron, as the premise of will is to affect and without cause, there is no effect.

The real question is whether the future is predetermined, but the act of determination is the present. The future has not been fully computed.

As these mobile organisms, this sentient interface our body has with its context functions as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate, so our experience of time is as the present moving past to future, but the reality is that activity and the resulting change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

There is no 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 manifests the present, creating time, temperature, pressure, color and sound. Frequencies and amplitudes, rates and degrees.

So the energy goes past to future, because the patterns generated come and go, 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. Though it is the digestive system processing the energy, feeding the flame, while the nervous system sorts the information, with the circulation system as feedback in the middle.

So consciousness, as energy, is causal, but primally emotional. Only from feedback does it become rational, navigating the environment.

The anarchies of desire, versus the tyrannies of judgement.

Even galaxies are energy radiating out, as structure coalesces in.