It is hard to get used to the idea that whatever it may be, consciousness is not a phenomenon. Just because it is what makes it possible for phenomena to be it cannot itself be such a thing. And if it is a substrate-independent emergent then surely it ought to be scale-invariant. You don't know whether it exists at other scales, say they are just temporal scales, as a relatively very fast or very slow consciousness. This kind of thing can certainly be imagined, is a staple idea of science-fiction, but phenomenologically and in relation to us, what would the temporal scale-invariance of consciousness mean? That we can acknowledge that certain others we encounter have not merely faster or slower thinking minds, but faster or slower reality? Surely this is the case, you know it within yourself in the course of a normal day. But what is it that we seem know in such cases? Does consciousness have a frame rate? Is it to do with the rate at which short-term memory decays, or the duration of the 'now'? Is what we call consciousness intrinsically dynamic, and so closer to an aural paradigm than the misleading visual paradigm ('it is like seeing, like the field in which things come and go') would suggest? You can imagine it as a continual weaving back and forth between Description and Appreciation (to use Royce's terms). Sometimes this is a regular beat, fast or slow, balanced or unbalanced, at other times it is chaotic and disorganised. Enjoyment is only experienced during the Appreciation phase, but then so it suffering, and your control over the relative weight of each phase is minimal. Surely this is all mistaken, resulting from a confusion of consciousness and mind. When you slow the mind consciousness becomes more apparent, but as having always been there and hence not in time.