There doesn't seem to be any real insight here. It's a reductionist process of pulling all the pieces apart and saying it is just lots of pieces and the whole is an illusion. Given the pieces apparently do add up to a larger whole, don't you think you may have missed something?
It took a billion years of evolution and feedback to generate current life forms, as well as a few million to generate human culture, maybe you should consider process, before passing judgement on the patterns generated.
Consider that as mobile organisms, our sense of our reality is this sequential perception, logically a function of navigation. Then, as humanity, we built civilizations out of narrative based cultures, so we experience time as the point of the present, moving past to future. Physics codifies it as measures of duration.
The reality is that change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns. Duration is the present, as the events come and go.
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 present. It creates time, as well as temperature, pressure, color, sound. Frequencies and amplitudes. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.
So energy, as process, goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past.
The energy drives waves, while the fluctuations rise and fall.
Lives go birth to death, rising and falling, while life moves onto the next generation, shedding the old. As products go start to finish, while the production line goes the other way, consuming material and expelling product.
Consciousness goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts go future to past.
Suggesting we might look at consciousness as an energy.
Yet it is the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy, while the central nervous system sorts and orders the information, aka, patterns and pieces.
Science has the same problem with energy, as it does with consciousness, in that it can only describe and measure the forms it inhabits, than seeing what manifests these forms as elemental, rather than emergent.
I find though, many people very reluctant to consider the nature of time and how we might be looking at it backwards, like seeing the sun rising in the east and setting in the west, because it goes against too many of the patterns they use to make sense of their life.
It is safe to say, we still have a long way to go and it isn't just examining the parts in ever smaller detail.
When you boil the body down, you have the skeleton, not the seed.
