I get where you're coming from and I'm sympathetic to the argument. I don't give block universe stuff high credence myself. If consciousness is a process, then

I get where you're coming from and I'm sympathetic to the argument. I don't give block universe stuff high credence myself. If consciousness is a process, then there would need to be discrete events that constitute the process. No events, no processes, no consciousness. I certainly find this highly intuitive. But this may be a biased analysis based on our time-oriented conceptual milieu. Can we make sense of processes without events? We normally understand a process as a sequence of static events. Time here is really just defining a dependency relation between configurations and some indexical. But a dependency relation doesn't need to be constituted by something that has change as an essential property. Dependency is just matter of an orientation through the state space. Orientation rather than change could be fundamental. With orientation comes trajectories through this structure which could plausibly ground processes. The indexical doesn't matter from the perspective of the subjective evolution of time. What's the difference between a process evolving over essential time and a process "unwound" along a trajectory? Plausibly nothing relevant to consciousness.