Interesting idea, but I don’t think short-term memory and learning really require conscious attention, and also conscious attention mostly isn’t the same thing as “consciousness” in the qualia sense. I like the term “cognitive control” and I think that might be a better theme linking a lot of these abilities (planning, preventing hallucinations, agency, maybe knowledge integration). It’s been improving though, so it doesn’t necessarily indicate a qualitative gap.
Interesting idea, but I don’t think short-term memory and learning really require conscious attention, and also conscious attention mostly isn’t the same thing as “consciousness” in the qualia sense. I like the term “cognitive control” and I think that might be a better theme linking a lot of these abilities (planning, preventing hallucinations, agency, maybe knowledge integration). It’s been improving though, so it doesn’t necessarily indicate a qualitative gap.