Consciousness does not exist in relation to neurons or other physical entities. It is experienced by selfs, which happen to be fictional representations generated by brains. Consciousness is a self-experience of fictional characters.
It is the other way around. The more detailed the regulation you want to perform, the more detailed you model must be. Simpler organisms don't have a self model because they cannot afford a sufficiently complex modeling system (large nervous system plus long training period).
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Most of the processing in the brain happens at the background. So is the self model involved in some sort of processing? Is the self model just like a visual display unit of a computer displaying data (experience)?
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Most of the self model is unconscious, too. Its content is the set of structures and latent variables that the system uses to predict and regulate its own activity.
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We don't just regulate our food intake and body temperature, but families, societies, cultures, and our trajectory through them. We are not just organisms, we are agents that act several levels of organization above them.
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