# Research: consciousness is to predict what follows action

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**Category:** General Neuroscience\
**Tags:** concsiousness\
**Created:** [October 3, 2022, 8:16pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/research-consciousness-is-to-predict-what-follows-action/10153 "2022-10-03T20:16:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 3, 2022, 10:53pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/research-consciousness-is-to-predict-what-follows-action/10153/5 "2022-10-03T22:53:46Z")

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> [@Falco](#):
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> even less how it works.

My opinion on that is covered here:

> [@Burst as a local learning rule in apical but not basal dendrites](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/burst-as-a-local-learning-rule-in-apical-but-not-basal-dendrites/9093/13):
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> I don’t see what makes it “one” then. Not everything that happens at the same time in the brain is one representation. Composition of GNW is changing all the time, globally active neurons can become locally active and vice versa? Also, that “concatenated” SDR probably won’t be in the same dendrite? It’s likely to be multiple concurrently active dendrites, with outputs summed in the soma? I think the reason why singular consciousness exists, vs. just massively parallel processing in the brain…

> [@Burst as a local learning rule in apical but not basal dendrites](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/burst-as-a-local-learning-rule-in-apical-but-not-basal-dendrites/9093/15):
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> A bit off-topic wrt OP article, but I think it supports my opinion about WTA in TRN: " Intrathalamic Inhibition of HO Thalamus A central regulator of thalamic function is feedback inhibition via thalamic reticular nucleus (TRN), a thin layer of GABAergic neurons partially encapsulating the relay nuclei which project to cortex ([Pinault, 2004](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8458899/#B152)). As well as TC afferents to cortex, thalamic relay neurons also send thalamoreticular projections to TRN which in turn provide feedback inhibition to re…

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