Your article is a wonderful portal to a good rabbit hole I often find myself in. I think of the present as the potential difference between the past and the future (thought that parallels your thesis). Potential difference or change is the constant transformation of energy. I believe time and space are constructs of my consciousness wherein I/We define our existence. Time and space are not external forces that govern us. Therefore I/We don't age; I/We change. Kind of like Gandalf progressing from grey to white while the plot thickens.