Figure 1.

Conceptual illustration of continuous time consciousness (cf. experienced moment) that creates an extended, flowing and dynamic present integrated over 1–3 seconds discrete, unextended, and static events (cf. functional moments) integrated over approximately 250 ms. Theories of consciousness like IIT and GNWT refer primarily to only one (i.e. first or most recent) functional moment, but time consciousness incorporates multiple events that are co-conscious (i.e. experienced together but temporally ordered) and so multiple instances of phi, global ignition, or any other synchronic event. To explain time consciousness, theories of consciousness like IIT and GNWT need to extend beyond the “moment” a single stimulus enters consciousness to accord with experience that is long, continuous, and dynamic.