I've always liked this sort of interpretation. because it suggests that the entire universe might actually be a static object; and time itself a complete illusion.<p>Imagine a hyper-being that has a few more dimensions, looking down on us as we look down on Tao's treefolk. We might optimistically imagine that they see our little moment of conscious perception moving backwards and forwards in time like a motivated fish. We perceive it as one way though, because when our little window of perception moves backwards it enters a state where it cannot remember the future, and when it moves forward it enters a state where it has no reference of lingering unevenly at different past times.<p>Seems unlikely, but so does everything else.