Consciousness is, after all, the one phenomenon that we know of, according to which time needs to ‘flow’ at all! The way in which time is treated in modern physics is not essentially different from the way in which space is treated* and the ‘time’ of physical descriptions does not really ‘flow’ at all; we just have a static-looking fixed ‘space–time’ in which the events of our universe are laid out!
Recall your thought of how time was measured when you were a kid: How could time be encoded in atoms
