The bits of a movie on a DVD depict regions of space evolving over time. The DVD and its bits exist in space and time but they are static and the spatial arrang

The bits of a movie on a DVD depict regions of space evolving over time. The DVD and its bits exist in space and time but they are static and the spatial arrangement of the bits is pretty much unrelated to the space depicted by the movie. If you had sufficiently good eyes and mental DVD decoding capabilities, you could look at the DVD and get a God's eye view of the world, see all of space and time at once, at least the parts captured in the movie. Similarly in a computer game, to run into a wall does not require the player and the wall to be next to each other in any real sense, it is sufficient that some code knows which memory locations to inspect to detect a collision and constrain the motion accordingly. Similarly running into a wall in the real world does not require that you are next to the wall in some fundamental sense, the universe could at a very deep level just be a list of object coordinates and the laws of nature would cause a force whenever two coordinates become very close. I will agree with you that it is much harder to think of time in a similar way but I am willing to consider this potentially a limitation of human brains. From Einstein we know about the close relationship between space and time and I can relatively easily make sense of the idea that spatial relationships are not fundamental, so maybe that just carries over to time, even though my brain can not make sense of it.