The idea that there is a conflict of prediction vs. reality, and a simple failure to connect disparate sensations into a whole are nothing alike. The former is

The idea that there is a conflict of prediction vs. reality, and a simple failure to connect disparate sensations into a whole are nothing alike. The former is a characteristic of something like motion or VR sickness; your body expects one thing, but receives conflicting information. Integration failure doesn’t require prediction, just different sensations not creating a whole impression. The author describes experiencing hunger as a bunch of disconnected sensations, that don’t add up to one thing. She feels pain in her stomach, irritability, tiredness, but doesn’t integrate that into “I’m hungry” and just experiences them as different incidental feelings indicative of nothing in particular.