Sublime

project causal power into our experiences of volition in just the same way that we project redness into our perceptions of surfaces.

As with all predictive perception, this best guessing is achieved through a brain-based process of prediction error minimization.

Alison Gopnik and Robin Carhart-Harris come at the problem of consciousness from what seem like completely different directions and disciplines, but soon after they learned of each other’s work (I had e-mailed a PDF of Robin’s entropy paper to Alison and told him about her superb book, The Philosophical Baby), they struck up a conversation that has

Without conditional predictions of this kind, there would be no way for the brain to know which action, among countless possible actions, would be most likely to reduce sensory prediction errors.

Panpsychism is the idea that consciousness is a fundamental property of the universe,

we behave so that we end up perceiving things in a particular way.

You are the activity of your neurons.

The third defining feature is that voluntary actions seem to come from within rather than being imposed from somewhere else.