Higher-order consciousness is based on the occurrence of direct awareness in a human being who has language and a reportable subjective life. Primary consciousness may be composed of phenomenal experiences such as mental images, but it is bound to a time around the measurable present, lacks concepts of self, past, and future, and lies beyond direct descriptive individual report from its own standpoint. Accordingly, beings with primary consciousness alone cannot construct theories of consciousness — even wrong ones!
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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, if primary consciousness involves a senser sensing perceptual meanings, and higher-order consciousness involves a senser sensing linguistic meanings, then, between the two poles, are various orders of consciousness that involve a senser sensing protolinguistic meanings, as in the case of social species.
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