Bear:
The representation of experience will be complicated, crossing multiple cortexes, layered, and sequential. This is a simplified view. (oh the first 2 graphs are about predicted or not . . .)
In my program, I define consciousness as a set of neurons with firing rate.
You are correct; the bit we call consciousness is part of a closed-loop system and isolating that specific bit is hard as it is mixed in with so many other functions.
My working theory on consciousness is fairly simple considering how complex the central nervous system is.
Let me set the table on how I see the brain working:
Focusing on the H of HTM. (Hierarchy)
Consider this in a sensory stream general framework of (raw sense) to (collected sense/association) to (name/symbol) to (collected symbols/grammar) to (working memory) to (the emotionally colored here and now) in the tip of the temporal lobe. This is the stream of sensation that you know as your pe…
Since you seem to be a visually oriented thinker, the same thing in diagram form:
HTM seeks to model and understand what is going on in your head.
I tossed this drawing together from memory so it is sure to be missing some connections. I skipped the thalamic connections all together as this was already a very complicated drawing. Also not shown are the connections between the limbic system and the stream passing through the brain stem and the cerebellum. These are important but not necessary to illustrate the basic cortical/limbic data flows. The blue maps are cortex compose…
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