Signals from inside the body contribute to awareness, feeling, and perception.

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Craig synthesizes evidence linking interoception and anterior-insula processing with subjective feeling and awareness. Barrett and Simmons provide a predictive-processing model in which ascending bodily signals constrain interoceptive predictions.

These sources do not show that bodily signals determine conscious interpretation, that one brain region explains awareness, or that the predictive-interoception model is the only account of how bodily signals contribute to experience.

The August 11 Working Map alignment explicitly normalizes Chapter 7 note 7.1 to this concrete framing. The Human OS claim remains a bidirectional loop rather than physiological determinism.

Broad, mature principles of human biology, behavior, or regulation supported across a substantial body of research.

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