When can we conclude predictive coding is not happening?

[Bitking]

I have proposed the “loop of consciousness” theory here:

Intelligence vs Consciousness

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 this is a closed loop system, I would not expect that a simple analysis is going to be successful in describing the behavior of the top-down signal flow.