Two Levels of Perception and the Cognitive Time

As the representational perception cannot bethe rate given to it, but it has nothing to do with the
counted as something that comes directly to thecognitive time, it can only be used as means to
consciousness, the process of perception must berelatively measure the exceeding cognitive time. If it
divided to two levels, the conscious and theis for example considered that hundred megahertz
sub-conscious perception. First there is the statecomputer can process hundred million processes in a
when photons are received in retina and then sendsecond and a gigahertz computer one billion
to the regions associated to perception, that onlyprocesses in a second, it is obvious that the
then after the content generative cycle emerges tomechanical time exceeds lot faster in the latter
the representational perception. The second level iscomputer. Thus, as cognitive time awareness is
then the conscious perception of the environment,structured in relativity with artificial measures such as
and the value-relative content generation, valuation,seconds, it is easy to understand why the
recombination of information structures related tomisconception of cognitive time would be somehow
the perceived information, and so on. These twodifferent from the Cartesian relativity of measuring
states, when combined can be said to be formingdistances or from the Einstein's example of two
two distinctively different levels of perception. It is atrains that move in parallel but in different speeds.
common belief that the first level of perception ofThus, as Einstein explained in his example, the true
the environment has been considered as the act ofmeasurement of speed must be made in relativity
conscious perception, although it is in fact only thewith non-moving target in Cartesian sense or by
second level of perception, entering approximatelyaccounting the speed the point of measurement has
100ms after being in contact with the presentation into the calculations. In another example, consider the
the environment.registering, reaction and future related valuation rates
The second curiosity related to this phenomenon iswhen flying five times faster than sound and
that information in the representational perceptioncompare it with being in the waiting room described
changes constantly even without producingearlier.
consciously new semantic content to theNow, as the content in the representational
automatically generated content by theperception exceeds in relativity with the cognitive
sub-conscious. The billion gigahertz brains behind thetime, the conscious perception of the content in it
consciousness generate constantly information,are in parallel with the exceeding presentations in the
creating as a by-product the sense of cognitive timeenvironment. But here's the thing. In conscious level,
awareness. By cognitive time it is meant the senseone must focus on the entities in order to be able to
of time related to the tasks of producing newdo value-relative changes to the contents
content to the consciousness, since if the informationrepresenting the environment. These can be called as
flow to consciousness was slower, the sense of timethe focus points that can exist in the level of
would be automatically slower and thus the sense ofrepresentations that are not manifested at present in
time is also a factor that causes cognitive time to bethe environment or in relations to the phenomena
measured in terms of relativity. Let us for examplemanifested in the environment at present and thus
consider that one is in a waiting room, and that thethe representational perception functions in these
sense cognitive time is measured in relativity with theboth levels. As phenomena are outlined and for
clock that is in the wall. Seconds exceed, but itexample semantized, it is automatically added to the
exceeds in the measures given to the clock, and ascontent of it and thus it exists thereafter in the first
this clock is an analog clock, the mechanism createdlevel of perception.
to it moves the pointer that represents a second in