Primary Consciousness As A "Remembered Present" Through Systemic Functional Linguistics

Edelman (1992: 119-20):

To summarise: The brain carries out a process of conceptual "self-categorisation." Self-categories are built by matching past perceptual categories with signals from value systems, a process carried out by cortical systems capable of conceptual functions. This value-category system then interacts via reentrant connections with brain areas carrying out ongoing perceptual categorisations of world events and signals. Perceptual (phenomenal) experience arises from the correlation by a conceptual memory of a set of ongoing perceptual categorisations. Primary consciousness is a kind of "remembered present."

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, primary consciousness is the correlation of systems of individually valued perceptual potential ("remembered") with current construals of experience as instances of perceptual meaning ("present").