Conscious or dreaming people are aware of seemingly infinite one-dimensional time {perceptual time}. Conscious or dreaming people having below-threshold stimuli are still aware of time. Unconscious people have no awareness of time. Shortest sensations last one millisecond.
properties
People are aware of one-dimensional time, not zero-dimensional time, two-dimensional time, or higher-dimensional time. Time information must be in real time, so brain does not lose information because processing is too slow, and brain does not need to add information because processing is too fast. Time does not change, flicker, or fade. Time seems continuous, not discrete. Time has past and future, before and after. Time has no intensity or space location.
People experience time flow, which seems faster with more events each second and slower with fewer events each second. Felt time-flow rate differs from brain-processing time-flow rate [Dennett and Kinsbourne, 1992] [Held et al., 1978] [Flaherty, 1999] [Pastor and Artieda, 1996] [Pöppel, 1978] [Pöppel, 1997]. Sense qualities are about time intervals appropriate to body actions, time scale of 20 milliseconds to hours. Sense qualities are not about electrochemical and physical processes at millisecond time intervals nor instantaneous events [Clifford et al., 2003] [Elman, 1990] [Price, 1996].
meaning
Time is necessary for meaning, because it provides references to past, present, and future.
delays
Time consciousness requires time delay. Time delay can use extra loop, temporary store, shuttle, stretch or shrink mechanism, or chemical delays. Circuits can have bypass circuits to adjust time. Main circuit can have inhibition while processing in bypass. Bypass can remove inhibition or overcome it.
multisensory
All senses seem to share same time.
observer
Observer or self seems to be at one-dimensional-time center. Self seems to be observing events in the present, looking backward to memories, and looking forward in imagination. Events circumscribe observer in time, forming envelope around observation point [Sellars, 1963].
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