The #control functions in a dynamical system such as a living organism are distributed on three levels:
1️⃣ The automated and predominantly unconscious #regulatory functions are responsible for any immediate response and maintaining the system’s homeostasis in the face of external disturbances.
2️⃣ The working parameters for these “regulators” are changed based on actions planned, directed, and modulated by the conscious #control functions seeking to optimize the use of the regulators and fulfill “high-level” goals, aspirations, and other needs that originate on
3️⃣ The “highest”#governance control level which maintains long-term drives that the system may be either aware (conscious) of (voluntary), or deeply ingrained in some unconscious habits, or innate.

It is evident from this short presentation that #consciousness resides primarily on the middle control level that has the ability to make predictions of future events and compare such expectations with the perception of reality as provided by the regulators. All in order to extract the difference between the two, or the #information that will be subsequently integrated into the #knowledge structure of the system to improve control.