Time and time again: a multi-scale hierarchical framework for time-consciousness and timing of cognition

Author:

Singhal Ishan12,Srinivasan Narayanan12ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Cognitive Science, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur 208016, India

2. Centre of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Allahabad, Allahabad 211002, India

Abstract

Abstract Temporality and the feeling of ‘now’ is a fundamental property of consciousness. Different conceptualizations of time-consciousness have argued that both the content of our experiences and the representations of those experiences evolve in time, or neither have temporal extension, or only content does. Accounting for these different positions, we propose a nested hierarchical model of multiple timescales that accounts for findings on timing of cognition and phenomenology of temporal experience. This framework hierarchically combines the three major philosophical positions on time-consciousness (i.e. cinematic, extensional and retentional) and presents a common basis for temporal experience. We detail the properties of these hierarchical levels and speculate how they could coexist mechanistically. We also place several findings on timing and temporal experience at different levels in this hierarchy and show how they can be brought together. Finally, the framework is used to derive novel predictions for both timing of our experiences and time perception. The theoretical framework offers a novel dynamic space that can bring together sub-fields of cognitive science like perception, attention, action and consciousness research in understanding and describing our experiences both in and of time.

Funder

Mr. Ishan Singhal Prime Minister Research

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Psychiatry and Mental health,Neurology (clinical),Neurology,Clinical Psychology,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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