What if the patterns are shadows on the cave wall?

Consider time; As mobile organisms with a sequential process of perception and a narrative based culture, we think of time as the point of the present, moving past to future. The reality is that change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

There is no literal dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the pressent, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.

The energy is "conserved," because it is the present. Its changing configuration creates time. More like temperature, pressure, color, sound, than space. Think frequencies and amplitudes.

So the energy, as process, goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past. As consciousness goes past to future, while thoughts and feelings go future to past. Or products go start to finish, while the production line goes the other way, consuming material and expelling product.

The energy manifests, while the form/information defines. The energy is what drives the wave, while the information of frequency and amplitude emerge from the undulations it expresses, rising and falling.

We have the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy driving us on, while the central nervous system sorts through, further condensing the information precipitating out.

The energy is necessarily dynamic, while the forms our minds process are necessarily static, like frames of a motion picture, otherwise just leaving the shutter open would be whiteout.

So we see the quantization, not necessarily the dynamic creating it. This quantization is calculable to the degree it can be clarified, quantized and digitized, but can the energy, the process creating it, be equally predictable, or are we just looking over our shoulder and staring into the open fire?

Whiteout.