Right. That we talk about consciousness suggests that the physical drives have feedback of the perceived experience and are able to make determinations about it

Right. That we talk about consciousness suggests that the physical drives have feedback of the perceived experience and are able to make determinations about it which is experienced again in perception as thoughts. I firmly believe that most if not all interpretations of the 'world' is processed and complete before it even reaches perception. How I recognize objects, how I feel at the moment, and my literal thoughts themselves. But I cannot deny that the brain activity that processes stimulus into interpretations into perceived experience is also very aware of the perceived experience. Perhaps it's as though our brain has a functional programming style in that various stimulus is operated upon somewhat independently by different regions of the brain, but the operation of synthesis takes the previous perceived experience (that is, the output of the previous synthesis op) as part of the input along with the various outputs of newly processed stimulus to create a new synthesized state that has reliable continuity.