Non-physicist answer: If you switch to viewing the universe as purely a mathematical construct, all these questions will fall away. :) The notion of ontologica

Non-physicist answer: If you switch to viewing the universe as purely a mathematical construct, all these questions will fall away. :) The notion of ontologically privileged time or even space is based on us elevating our model of the universe into objective fact for no reason. Anything that the brain would notice even in a timeless, purely mathematical universe is thus an unneeded addition purely on Occam grounds. For instance, we may ask the question: "would my brain, if you computed its output given its inputs, output data like 'I exist, I am conscious, I notice the flow of time passing, the present moment is ontologically privileged to me'? It seems obvious that it would; that is, the mathematical answer to the question of "what does my brain output" is that sentence. But a mathematical question cannot be ontologically privileged. We see thus that these notions of ours are necessarily vacuous; any conception of 'time', 'now' and 'me' must be relative, depending purely on the surrounding mathematical/causal structure, or else not exist at all - since even if they did exist, our noticing them is not dependent on their existence, and thus Occam bids us to discard them.