A basic category is proposed where every perception is an object and morphisms capture the flow between perceptions.
Natural transformations capture paths to more cognitive perceptions.
Also, please let me know if you are aware of other research that applies categorical tools to research in artificial perception and cognition. This is not an answer to your question. But your posting prompts me to ask a question in the semantics underlying applications of cateogories. How do you capture 'time'. It has always seemed to me that the applications of Cat.