ABSTRACT
This chapter takes up a challenge to the argument from distributed cognitive assembly. It argues that the context-sensitive assembly of the neural processes involved in minimising expected long-run prediction error is organised in part by factors outside of the individual agent. The chapter provides a general overview of the concept of diachronic constitution. To make sense of the constitution of consciousness by predictive processing, we to pay special attention to temporality because consciousness is inherently backwards and forwards flowing in its temporal structure. It returns to the causal/coupling-constitution fallacy as it applies to the third wave. The chapter shows that once one thinks of predictive processing as constituting conscious experience diachronically, one is required to sometimes look beyond the brain for a metaphysical account of how perceptual experience is constituted. It confronts some complex modal intuitions about the constitution of consciousness.
