A friend of mine who might be me came up with a similar model during an acid trip a few years ago.
Imagine your mind's eye traveling down a hallway of pictures. Some are memories, some are what your senses are actually experiencing, and some are products of your imagination. There are occasionally branch points where you can choose a path depending on which pictures you see down each hallway. Some pictures are scary, some are enticing. Your mood or goal influences which path you'll choose. Many of these pictures are pictures of you in various situations. They could be as simple as you at the top of the stairs you're currently climbing, or as intricate and abstract as you at the pinnacle of your career 15 years from now. Once you get to a picture that's only slightly different from your current situation, your subconscious mind can choose to make it happen -- moving muscles to take the next step, speaking the next word in a sentence shown in the image, etc.
Consciousness is the path you take through this network of images. In real life it happens so fast you don't experience the choosing of paths, and it's not really a visual hallway but rather a fusion of senses and emotions.
You’re closer than you think. Replace “hallway of pictures” with “predictive coding across the common core network,” and you’ve got 80% of my framework. The other 20% is what makes it falsifiable.
Imagine your mind's eye traveling down a hallway of pictures. Some are memories, some are what your senses are actually experiencing, and some are products of your imagination. There are occasionally branch points where you can choose a path depending on which pictures you see down each hallway. Some pictures are scary, some are enticing. Your mood or goal influences which path you'll choose. Many of these pictures are pictures of you in various situations. They could be as simple as you at the top of the stairs you're currently climbing, or as intricate and abstract as you at the pinnacle of your career 15 years from now. Once you get to a picture that's only slightly different from your current situation, your subconscious mind can choose to make it happen -- moving muscles to take the next step, speaking the next word in a sentence shown in the image, etc.
Consciousness is the path you take through this network of images. In real life it happens so fast you don't experience the choosing of paths, and it's not really a visual hallway but rather a fusion of senses and emotions.