“An intensity contour also involves time and is in some ways closer to shape as a quality than to intensity as a quantity.”
Daniel Stern :
“I suggest that at a preverbal level (outside of awareness) the experience of finding a cross-modal match (especially the first time) would feel like a correspondence or imbuing of present experience with something prior or familiar. Present experience would feel related in some way to experience from elsewhere.
This primitive form of a déjà vu event is quite different from the process of making associational linkages, which may have more the quality of a discovery-that two things already apprehended belong together. It is likely that in this domain of emergent experience there is also the experience of premonition of a hidden future in the process of revealing a structure that can only be sensed, opaquely.”
"Forms are not necessarily representational, but intensities."