> A theory of consciousness has no need to predict the future. If you don't feel the need to predict anything about consciousness in the real world, I'd say I

> A theory of consciousness has no need to predict the future. If you don't feel the need to predict anything about consciousness in the real world, I'd say I won't be interested in such a "theory" (or "explanation"). But glad to see your take on the definition of the term. Going back to Occam's razor, if you only apply it to get the simplest map (in some sense of "the simplest"), and abandon verifying whether it predicts the territory or not, it seems a blank map always wins.