Scott,

What you present is a very complex relationship that we, as organic beings, have with our environment.

Now consider; Would you agree if I argued that the primary fact of the most distinct entities in existence, galaxies, could be usefully described as energy radiating out, while form coalesces in? Yes, there is a lot of complex activity involved and complex math being used to describe it, but…radiation expands, mass contracts. Our measures of space reflect this, in that space, as measured and defined in terms of mass and gravity, contracts, while the space defined and measured by the redshift of intergalactic light is expanding.

So this would seem to suggest there are two primal observed phenomena, closely related, energy and mass/form, going in opposite directions. Yes/no/maybe?

Then consider that as biological organisms, we have the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy driving us on, while the central nervous system sorts through and organizes the forms/information precipitating out. Much of which involves discarding unnecessary information and condensing the information saved, in the most efficient forms. Conceptually similar to how matter is condensed out of energy and more basic forms, into more complex and dense forms.

Then think how this relationship applies to everything you’ve described here; Such as the energy carrying information, yet we only perceive the forms/information we condense out of it.

Though this form only exists to the extent it still has energy. The positive and the negative haven’t cancelled out. So the form will always fluctuate, between expansion and contraction.

As life cycles between youth and age. Growth and withering, as the form loses energy.

So it is not that our senses can’t experience reality, but that we have to stabilize and formalize what is dynamic and fluid. We want to believe, but believe in something that is solid and unmoving, that we have as a foundation in this unstable and unpredictable reality. Once we accept the dynamics and the cycles and the feedback, than we have some sort of framework, other than a world that has quantized and monetized every bit of information that can be extracted, distilled, reduced and sterilized of any and all noise, confusion, context, meaning, relationships. Life.