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Here is how I parse your proposal: Consciousness is made by coordination of two steps.? Consciousness shows up when the coordination is made. Or the qualia consciousness is the coordination of the two steps that is made. In the first step, the what to do step, a reenforcing event is paired with the brain stimulus that elicits the operant behavior.?This brain event is experienced as a plan.? I assume that the plan is the pairing of brain activity from a stimulus paired with brain activity that results in behavior.?I assume "experienced" is not already conscious, or is it? Reenforcement of the operant behavior makes the pairing possible.?Some kind of reward (which I had assumed was related to affect), increases the likelihood that, thereafter, when the stimulus brain activation occurs, since it is paired with the reenforced motor activation, results in a repeat in behavior. Then the renforcers also elicits emotion or affect and thereby provides the salience--"an instance of?consciousness"--which makes the plan conscious.? The plan sounds like a piece of cognition that was unconscious until salience came along.?I assume you are saying salience causes a "shift" into the state of consciousnesss. You are not trying to propose an explanation of the qualia of conscious, something like a "spark".? This allows for the second step in which the now salient brain event may be paired with the environmental stimulus.?This is the when to do it step. This is more a shift of the sensory activation into consciousness.?Or is it a transformation of sensory activation into perception--an accounting of qualia? I'm trying to find out if your system addresses Joe B's Ghost in the machine, which is what I try to address.