What if our problem with understanding is compounding the complexity and losing sight of the simplicity?

Consider that logically a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. More the light shining through the film, than the images on it.

Good and bad are not some cosmic conflict between the forces of righteousness and evil, that culture informs us, but the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental, by which nature operates. The 1/0 of sentience.

An ideal good is like a perfect yes, or the best up. When we make good an ideal, all the higher order complexity, nuance and subjectivity is lost, in the race to the bottom, of us versus the other.

We are mobile organisms, so our sentience coalesces as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate. Which means we experience time as the point of the present moving past to future, which physics codifies as measures of duration. Though the reality is that change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns. Duration is the present, as the events rise and fall.

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 only present, creating time, as well as temperature, pressure, color and sound. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

So the energy, as process and present, goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past.

Energy drives the wave, while 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's the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy, feeding the flame, while the central nervous system sorts the information. Signals from the noise.

Waves tend to either synchronize, which is inherently centripetal, or harmonize, which is effectively centrifugal. Consequently reality is nodes and networks, organisms and ecosystems, particles and fields.

Since our conscious state functions as an interface between our body and its world, "we" fluctuate in the middle.

So if we want to better understand the physical dynamic of consciousness, we need a much better basic understanding of reality, than this still fairly primitive cultural paradigm we find ourselves in.