I like how your brain works.
   Yes, to me, I don't see paradoxes as being valid; just
   limitations on our assumptions based on our biological
   prejudice. As we're not outside the very spacetime we're trying
   to discover more about, we're like fish trying to understand
   drinking. [making conscious something we never even have to
   consider it's such a part of who we are and how we operate]

   I like thinking of the nature of the focal point; what happens
   when light is flipping? What's it like to go into unexpected
   directions while flipping and turning inside-out like that and
   finally upside down and backwards?

   I symbolize it like >o< in my mind but with the > and the <
   overlapping and the 'o' not so much a point but as anything that
   fits within that "moment".

   I don't believe that the present moment does not exist; I
   believe it *does* exist, but our perception and assumption of it
   is biologically limited and so, any systems we use to analyze
   the nature of things *must*, I believe, take into full account
   the biology of the creatures (us) who are coming up with the
   mathematical systems, the sciences, and other descriptions of
   the nature of things. Otherwise, we can easily get lost in a
   perfect representation that's entirely logical but fundamentally
   only true for, us.

   For example, our brains perceive past and future using mostly
   the same mechanisms in the brain. Our ficton freely moves around
   past, present and future, has no trouble with simultaneousity...

   Our brains tend to enjoy patterns. We prefer systems that can
   compress knowledge for that is how our brains function it seems.
   We categorize and group based on our perspective. Languages,
   whether spoken or written, are very complicated machines that
   can do amazing things and even be used to create things in
   physical reality based upon their construction; words or
   mathematics alike can be used to build a computer, a bridge,
   construct a concept that can be expressed in some form; concepts
   compressed into bundles of words or numbers of mathematical
   expressions, and decompressed in a brain with similar training -
   or in a computer that has been mechanically designed in a
   similar fashion, to function in a similar way as the machines
   built by our concepts do.

   [and I consider electrons, photons, all perfectly mechanical
   things]

   With all that being said, I think humans do have a tendency to
   find a language of description and recreate a version of their
   experience of reality with it. The Lego Bricks may be different
   (it may be words, it may be mathematics); and we can construct a
   version of reality that is extraordinarily similar to what we
   perceive as reality... but it's view of reality that is
   befitting for HUMANS, for our biology, for our cognitive
   makeup... fitting our assumptions and prejudices as beings
   within it, at our scale and size.

   Time does not exist for a photon because, at present, it is our
   perceived limit of Time so in our imagination, "to be like a
   Photon" would be to experience Timelessness; as already arriving
   withing any experience of passage... and it is us, as slow
   creatures that can perceive its travel.

   And this is quite logical, For humans. From our perspective.

   We also believe that two intersecting light cones cannot see the
   intersection; it takes a 3rd party as it were to see it
   happening. In short, at the focal point, there is blindness for
   the two parties involved.

   But; interestingly enough, that is *also* our limitation, our
   inability. I believe we have patterned the nature of lightcones
   and the behavior of it, on us and our visual systems.

   Yet, there is precedence; the 720 degree spin of the electron
   (and possibly the photon, I do not know) - what we perceive as
   turning inside out. perhaps a similar thing happens with the
   magnetic and electrical fields at the crossover point; I don't
   know.

   I'm not sure what I'm saying here really; not in full. I'm not
   disagreeing; I believe everything you say is true and is so. Yet
   I can't help shake a sense that the map becomes the territory
   itself when a single language gains dominance. Not that it's a
   bad thing; it will take us far.
   But, like the concept of infinity, it can be easy to mistake the
   ideals for reality and construct reality based on the ideals
   with a greater certainty than observation would afford.

   And, I believe, once we reach the level of constructing reality
   based on an idealized system, our own biological limitations
   become even more critical to not lose... for it's very easy to
   float away in a world of ideas that aren't grounded; and
   mathematics perhaps more than other disciplines has that danger
   within it; although writers, artists and musicians have also
   gotten lost in the purity of their art as well.