Yet we are mobile beings and that forward direction is essential to our existance. It’s like riding a bicycle, in that you need to keep moving, not to fall over. Then it’s a function of judging our pace and direction and that is why we have that conscious analytical process of thought. Plants don’t have to navigate, so they don’t need that focused attention. Our problem is we have come to view this sequencing as foundational, not just a particular bias.

Time is not so much the point of the present, moving past to future, as it is change turning future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns. As Alan Watts put it, refuting determinism; “The wake doesn’t steer the boat, the boat creates the wake.”

We are driven by that sentience, flowing through us, but it is funneled through the mind, not so much to act, but to sort through the muddle and mass of information and learn the lessons, so that our actions are informed.