Unless one is a dualist or other non-physicalist, more than mere correlation is required; at least some NCCs must be the essential substrates of consciousness.
"Convergent evidence indicates that non-human animals, including all mammals and birds, and other creatures, have the necessary neural substrates of consciousness and the capacity to exhibit intentional behaviors".
When Jack Carrigan, a mercurial police inspector, is sent to investigate the sadistic murder of a young Ugandan woman in her West London apartment, he senses "how the past could come crashing up against the substrate of your consciousness like some unstoppable thing".
In anticipation of those developments the available experimental data are reviewed concerning the state variables in several levels that collectively constitute the substrate of biological consciousness.
The integrated intersection of 'observing' and 'representing' faculties situated in prefrontal and parietal cortex, respectively, may thus reflect the substrate of perceptual consciousness [4], [50].
The ontological distinction among the form, appearance, and substrate of an activity of consciousness is detailed in D. W. Smith, Mind World (2004), in the essay "Three Facets of Consciousness".
Accordingly, we propose that large-scale gamma-band synchronization constitutes an oscillatory substrate for the stream of consciousness.
Tsongkhapa dispenses with this notion of a substrate consciousness and sees it as simply another reification, another conceptually constructed essence that masquerades as the primary reality of the self.
Call it stream-of-consciousness shopping.
