Phenomenology

Time is emergent from consciousness — Husserl's analysis of internal time-consciousness reveals time as the fundamental form of subjective experience. The "living present" is structured by retention (just-past) and protention (about-to-come), making temporal flow an irreducible feature of intentionality. Time is continuous and linear, flowing uni-directionally from the first-person perspective. It is finite because lived experience is bounded by birth and death.

Space is emergent and constituted through embodied perception — Merleau-Ponty showed that spatial experience is inseparable from the lived body. Space is not a neutral container but the field of possible action organized around the body's orientation. It is local, flat, and three-dimensional as experienced, because the phenomenologist describes the structures of experience as they appear to consciousness.

Matter is emergent — it appears to consciousness as the resistance and texture of the perceived world. The phenomenologist brackets the question of matter's independent existence (epoche) and describes it as a phenomenon: what shows itself in the act of perceiving. Matter is conserved in the sense that perceived objects exhibit stable, repeating patterns, and local because material things present themselves from particular spatial perspectives.

Energy is emergent — it is a concept constituted within the natural scientific attitude, not a pre-given feature of lived experience. The phenomenologist treats energy as a theoretical construct that structures our understanding of change and persistence. Conservation and irreversibility are features of the scientific framework applied to phenomena, not of the phenomena as immediately lived.

Information is constituted in the intentional relation between consciousness and phenomena — it does not exist independently of a consciousness that apprehends it, nor purely in the mind without a world to intend. It is relational by definition and conserved in the phenomenological sense that every experience leaves a trace.