I think cause and effect are a myth, I think effect comes before cause, and that all effects have their origin, the cause, as their end goal, such that the effect happens then it guides itself toward the cause, and that the end goal of the universe was never heat death and maximum entropy, but a singularity, an infinite point with infinite mass, the moment before the big bang, I think consciousness runs in reverse, we only see the world moving forward because we started existence with all our memories intact, like how in blade runner they implant memories and from the replicant perspective they actually lived a full life even through they came into being as an adult, we begin existence with all our memories and then experience life until that point (the end of life), at that point we reach the real world and experience life as it really is, backwards, we go back in time, walk backwards, speak backwards, etc, as a fulfillment of our history, the past cannot be changed so we must do everything again as we always have done, but in reverse, we become babies and go back into the womb, as reverse causal beings history can only be understood in reverse, we don't build buildings for the sake of progress but tear them down and reattach the logged trees, returning earth to its untouched state, we return to singular celled organisms and back into the primordial ooze, because ooze cannot reverse entropy (in a forward time line, entropy cannot be reversed on a cosmic scale, but it can be reversed on a local scale through an intelligent being, see Maxwell's demon thought experiment), from a reverse time line an intelligent being is not reversing entropy but creating it, through generating heat, compressing things together, etc, since the universe is travelling to the point of least entropy, the moment before the big bang, we are meant to reverse ourselves, the singularity is the moment of infinite potential, all things are possible before they are done, a child can be an astronaut but an adult cannot, as we age backwards we stop being who we are and return to who we could be, a being of ininite potential, we return to dust and and the dust comes together into a single point of singularity before the big bang, in the future all knowledge is known and stored into future versions of hard drives and data storage devices, in reverse the knowledge would leave these devices and manifest itself into the world, history would be written in information first before being manifested millions of years "later" (i.e in the past), if we assume that a future society compresses all data into as small a space as possible, then this process of reversing data into the real world would resemble a big bang but in reverse, knowledge would spread out from that center point into the entire universe, the knowledge that was encoded in the singularity before the big bang would leave the infinite point of all knowledge, spread out into the universe, and eventually return to the pre big bang singularity