Such a dynamic, biological concept of consciousness as reflecting ever-shifting 'global mappings' in the brain, ceaseless relatings of current perceptions to past mappings, has been articulated with great force recently, by Gerald Edelman.
2008, Stephen Kemmis, Tracey J. Smith, Enabling praxis: challenges for education
What makes a complex practice like education or medicine distinctive is the content of sayings, doings and relatings characteristic of the practice(..)