Dear Merriman:
I must say that I agree with most of your essay, is excellent with, the exception of the "time" subject.
"This process is what we call time. The presence of the energy is like the hand of time,
constantly moving onto the next configuration, as these forms, as their own units of
time, come into being and dissolve."
"While we have this sense of forward motion through the events, it is the presence of
the energy that is constant, so it is the events forming and receding, going future to
past. As when the unit of time that is our lifespan is over, we too recede into the past".
In my essay I explain that what people call "time" in fact is "motion" and "motion" precedes energy or is energy. "motion" existence needs of something that moves, "motion" is a quality or property of every physically existing thing, and not the quality itself, but the things that moves, change to different configurations and forms. If you mean changing to the next configuration and forms are the "time/motion units" of those configurations, I am not agree time/motion . "Time" probably born as a system to measure "motion" created by men "time units" which I say are "motion units" also were created by men. What I think probably are the same are "motion" and energy, and I am not sure, I don't think is probable but it is maybe possible that energy can dissolve.
There is not forward motion through the events, events usually change and transform in the place were they are. If energy is constant, then would not dissolve. Events always change like everything else. Future and past don't has physical existence they only exist in our minds, when we are considering them. When our period of transformation as living beings finish, this is our duration ,we recede into the past into the minds of living beings.
Héctor