I think consciousness itself is something like “riding a wave”.
You are a Computationally Bounded Observer, with a Vector, a Speed, a Point of View, and, a structure that enables all of this to “surf” from the past into the future, along A Given Trajectory through the great Mishmash.
The History of Your World is comprised of your memories: formed of the physical connections caused by the entanglement of particles you leave in your wake.
Because, too, I Am a Computationally Bounded Observer, I cause particles to entangle, creating a Wake of a Point of View, and, where the universe can reconcile those histories we call it “shared”.
The future is the Total Possibility Space that seems apparent from a certain POV, to a CBO.