Yet what makes reality real is the friction and tension of opposing polarities, dichotomies, ends of the spectrum. It is dualistic in that sense.

Consider that galaxies are energy radiating out, as mass/form coalesces in. As organic beings, we have the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems, processing the energy driving us on, along with a central nervous system sorting through the information precipitating out, along with refereeing the emotions and impulses bubbling up.

Societies are the social and sectional energies bubbling up, as cultural and civil forms coalesce in.

The problem with a monist point of view is that it tends to see one side and ignore that it is the other side.

For instance, we think of time as the point of the present moving past to future, yet the obvious physical explanation is that it is change turning future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

Essentially the process churns along, while the patterns rise and fall. Our consciousness goes past to future, while our thoughts go future to past.

There is no physical dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, in order to inform it, aka, causality.

Energy is “conserved,” because there is no physical past for it to recede into, or physical future for it to arrive from, as it is the changing configuration of this energy which creates the effect of time.

It is a tapestry being woven of strands pulled from it.

Other effects of this activity are temperature, pressure, color, etc. We could use ideal gas laws to correlate volume with temperature and pressure, but they are only foundational to our emotions, bodily functions and environment, not the sequencing of perception necessary to mobile organisms, so we can be more objective about them.

What really drives us are those thermodynamic feedback loops, between energy radiating to infinity and form coalescing to neutrality, as all energy is radiated away.

Consider as well that epicycles were pretty good math, as modeling of our view of the cosmos, but math is only abstracted from reality, not its foundation. So the crystalline spheres, presumed to be the physical manifestation, were lousy physics, because aspects of the territory were overlooked in this map drawn of the cosmos.

I suspect we will eventually find that certain aspects of current theoretical physics are also pretty good math, but lousy physics.