Thanks for your careful observations. What impressed me a lot is your intuitive instinct for the "Geometric Universe" model, in which everything is frozen, and what we perceive as motion, decision and emotion is holographic and illusional...except of course at our frame of reference where life SEEMS urgent.

Of course, as with any model, the Geometric model of the cosmos has a "flaw"...it is a construct like a CD-ROM, and begs the ultimate question of where the CD came from. This is why I maintain a slight shift of geometric coordinates in GR free fall permits gradual change.

I stick pretty close to the geometric model (and was interested in your observations and intuition) because of the experimental veracity of GR. It seems like all of its predictions can be experimentally verified to the umteenth place!

Best wishes, Sam Cox