Consciousness is not prediction error resolution as such but the second-order perception that orchestrates coherence across models being maintained and updated

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• Consciousness, phenomenologically understood, is second-order perception: not just registration of content, but the additional perception that perception is taking place.claim0.847
  Paper's core phenomenological definition of consciousness
• Consciousness is not the global broadcast itself but the second-order perception that orchestrates coherence across representations competing for and achieving global accessclaim0.819
  CIMC's differentiation of its account from GWT: it explains the dynamics underlying GWT rather than equating consciousness with broadcast
• Consciousness functions as a coherence-maximizing pattern, minimizing constraint violations between simultaneously active partial models of reality in working memory and perceptual space.claim0.803
  Paper's functional definition of consciousness, based on von der Malsburg's coherence definition
• A system is conscious if it implements self-organized second-order perception that increases global coherenceclaim0.801
  CIMC's current operational definition, precise enough to generate predictions while subject to revision
• Consciousness is not the result of mental architecture and cognitive ability, but its prerequisite — a necessary precondition for complex learning and intelligent behavior.claim0.794
  Genesis Hypothesis claim that consciousness forms before rather than from cognition
• Consciousness features occur substrate-neutrally across brains, unconventional embodiments, and information-processing systems.claim0.790
• Consciousness precedes complex cognition and is present in infants before perception, self-modeling, language, and reasoning have maturedhypothesis0.783
  The developmental ordering argument supporting consciousness as the bootstrap mechanism for intelligence
• Consciousness remains without an agreed scientific characterization, without a validated theory connecting mechanism to experience, and without criteria for establishing its presence or absence in any systemclaim0.782
  CIMC's characterization of the current state of the field motivating its research program