Emotions or states which seem to be entirely in the present such as lust or embarrassment may be social emotions and therefore imply the self, relative to a synchronic intersubjectivity (dogs might seem to show embarrassment when caught in something forbidden by their masters, but this is only in relation to humans), which remains a temporal structure. Joy, however, can be an asocial entirely present emotion, or might veer towards this as it intensifies into bliss. So it is natural that bliss would be a state intrinsic to consciousness; it is what persists when temporal ad social mediations are dissolved.