Predictive Processing: Conscious when Training (opens in new tab)

Last week I started learning about theories of consciousness from the .One theory in particular that stuck in my mind is predictive processing. It says that all conscious minds have an internal world model and we are constantly taking in stimuli and predicting what comes next and we update our world model based on the outcome. The prediction error is what is used to update our neural weights and the conscious experience follows from that.A great example is that predicting what happens when we...