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.

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一次又一次：时间意识和认知时间的多尺度层次框架

时间性和“现在”的感觉是意识的基本属性。时间意识的不同概念化认为，我们的经验内容和这些经验的表征都随时间演变，或者两者都没有时间延伸，或者只有内容有。考虑到这些不同的立场，我们提出了一个多时间尺度的嵌套层次模型，该模型解释了关于认知时间和时间经验现象学的发现。这个框架分层地结合了时间意识的三个主要哲学立场（即电影的、外延的和保留的），并为时间体验提供了一个共同的基础。我们详细介绍了这些层次结构的属性，并推测它们如何在机械上共存。我们还在这个层次结构的不同层次上放置了一些关于时间和时间体验的发现，并展示了如何将它们结合在一起。最后，该框架用于对我们的经验时间和时间感知进行新的预测。该理论框架提供了一个新颖的动态空间，可以将认知科学的子领域（如感知、注意力、行动和意识研究）结合在一起，以理解和描述我们在时间上和时间上的体验。