Joe
I am fully aware there is no such thing as time in any given reality, by definition, it occurs once and is a unique physically existent state. Reality is only spatial. Time is concerned with the rate of change to the subsequent reality in the sequence. So there is only ever a 'present' which exists. The point is that what exists is a physically existent state of whatever comprises it, not the objects as we conceive them. Which is what I said at the outset and have been repeating ever since.
Here is a quote from your essay:
"The fact is that had I truly wished to find out anything about a real toe, the only way I could have done so would have been by taking my shoes and socks off and by looking at one of my real toes. Real snowflakes are unique. Real toes are unique. I presently possess a set of real toes no other person who has ever lived, who is presently alive, or who will ever live anywhere in the future, had, has, or will ever come to possess"
At any given time the reality which manifests as your toe is different from any other time. It is not your toe, or snowflake, or whatever, that is unique. As conceived this does not physically exist. What is unique, and what exists at any given time is a physically existent state of the 'thing'. The 'thing' only appears as a 'thing' because we are defining 'thing' on the basis of superficial physical characteristics, which are not what physically occurs. Indeed, we even rationalise that conception by speaking of 'it changes', when it does at this superficial level. Which is of course a contradiction, because if it has changed, then it is no longer it, it is something else.
Paul