A recent surge of work on prediction-driven processing models--based on Bayesian
inference and representation-heavy models--suggests that the material basis of conscious
experience is inferentially secluded and neurocentrically brain bound. This paper develops
an alternative account based on the free energy principle. It is argued that the free energy
principle provides the right basic tools for understanding the anticipatory dynamics of the
brain within a larger brain-body-environment dynamic, viewing the material basis of some
conscious experiences as extensive--relational and thoroughly world-involving
