The river is the dimensioin of time. But this dimension is an illusion caused by becoming and duration.
"An illusion is the perception or misinterpretation of a real external stimulus. For example, seeing something that looked like an animal but when we see it well there is only vegetation, or interpreting a shadow in a dark street as if it were a person." From: Wikipedia
For Isaac Newton "time is like a river in which everything happens". For Albert Einstein "the distinction between past, present and future is only a persistent stubborn illusion". Both Newton and Einstein referred to the River, but without identifying it as the dimension of time but as time itself.
The past and the future are illusions as Einstein thought, only the present is real. The River is represented in the parallelochron.
Although the River is an illusion it gives us information about the difference between the past and the future. Aristotle thought that time depended on a consciousness that records it. Philochrony, with the River, unifies the ideas of Aristotle, Newton and Einstein about time.
In conclusion, we must differentiate between objective and real time (present) and its subjective dimension, River (past and future).
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