We are linear, goal oriented creatures in a cyclical, reciprocal, feedback generated reality. It's like we haven't quite come to terms with the earth being round, not flat.

For one thing, time isn't the point of the present, moving past to future, that we experience as the sequence of perception, necessary for mobile organisms to navigate, but change turning 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 is the present, not some dimensionless point between past and future. It creates time, as well as temperature, pressure, colors, sounds. Frequencies and amplitudes.

Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

Ideal gas laws correlate volume with temperature and pressure, but we don't refer to them as the 5th and 6th dimensions of space, because they are only foundational to our emotions, bodily functions and environment, not the sequence of thought.

As process, energy goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past.

Energy drives the wave, as the fluctuations rise and fall.

Galaxies are energy radiating out, toward infinity, as form coalesces in, toward equilibrium. Both entropic.

Consciousness goes past to future, as the perceptions, emotions and thoghts rise and fall, future to past.

Yet it is the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy, feeding the flame, while the central nervous system sorts and orders the information.

So we try to define everything in terms of the information, but ignore the energy, as it is only quantized and defined in terms of the information that can be extracted.....

So everything is digitized, quantified, monetized, atomized.....

All trees, no forest.