The brain leans hard on prediction errors, not just successes. Those errors drive learning and are even proposed to be the feelings like surprise or pain when the self-model registers them. That ‘successfully operating’ bit was about feeling like a stable ‘self’, not implying that experience needs perfect prediction. Presumably, if predictions broke down catastrophically or persistently, the stable sense of self could get seriously disrupted too.
You say consciousness = successful prediction. What happens when the predictions are wrong?
The brain leans hard on prediction errors, not just successes. Those errors drive learning and are even proposed to be the feelings like surprise or pain when the self-model registers them. That ‘successfully operating’ bit was about feeling like a stable ‘self’, not implying that experience needs perfect prediction. Presumably, if predictions broke down catastrophically or persistently, the stable sense of self could get seriously disrupted too.