We are these mobile organisms, necessitating this sequential process of perception, so we experience time as the point of the present, moving past to future, but the reality is change turning future to past.

Basically energy and information go opposite directions of time.

Being conserved, energy is only present, so it creates time, as well as temperature, pressure, color, sound. Frequencies and amplitudes. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

So the energy, as process, goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past. Energy drives the wave, while the fluctuations rise and fall.

Consciousness goes past to future, while perceptions go future to past, though it is our digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy, while the central nervous system sorts the forms/infomation.

Which leads to this modern tendency of seeing reality only in terms of the information that can be extracted. It from bit.

Which is a much broader conversation, but one which is currently outside the Overton window of acceptable discourse.