Ben,
A big problem there, is that thought, logic, reason, etc. are inherently and necessarily reductionistic. We distill that piece of information out of the cacophony. Signal from the noise. So we are having to 'objectify' in order to know. Even our eyes and ears only pick up select frequencies. Then we juggle these few ideas we settle on, like Holy Texts. Everything from the bible to quantum theory are like search lights, that while they reveal what they shine on, obscure what surrounds it, which is the context to make sense of it. Even a moving car doesn't have a precise location.
Energy is what manifests, while information is what defines. Energy is dynamic and thus ethereal, while information is static and so dead.
We think of the past as unchanging, yet the problem of time is that its not so much a vector from past to future, rather the process by which future becomes past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday because the earth turns. So the past and all it supposedly contains, rapidly recedes and evaporates, since the energy which manifested it is conserved as the present. Time is a tapestry being woven from strand pulled out of what was previously woven. Which is how the past leads to the future, by giving up its content.
Energy marches onto the future, as information falls away into the past. Much as light radiates outward, as mass pulls inward. Time as a line is only a fraction of time as a cycle.
Regards,
John Merryman