ideas-science-neuro-globalNarrativeTheoryOfConsciousness

consciousness as global consensus history

  note: in this case, you could have may parts of your brain building their own consensus history of the last few seconds, only to have most of them be discarded because only one of them is selected to be incorporated into the single, global narrative
  git, bitcoin similarities
  e.g. for sequential, as opposed to parallelizable, operations (thanks to my friend R for this line)