信息的本体学概念不能解释意识的意识
1Dept. of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, United States.
Consciousness and cognition
|October 30, 2024
概括
信息 信息 信息 信息
科学领域:
- 认知科学 认知科学
- 神经科学是一个神经科学.
- 思想的哲学 思想的哲学
背景情况:
- 对比认识论 (解码外在输入) 和本体论 (内在状态) 的信息理论.
- 突出存在论理论在解释意识方面的局限性.
- 确定动物大脑是唯一已知的有意识系统.
研究的目的:
- 为了对比认识论和本体论信息理论.
- 论证认识论信息处理对意识至关重要.
- 提出一个框架来理解动物大脑中的意识.
主要方法:
- 概念分析和理论论证.
- 信息理论的对比分析.
- 检查信息解码在生物系统中的作用.
主要成果:
- 存在论信息理论无法解释意识.
- 认识论信息处理,特别是解码外部输入,是动物大脑意识的核心.
- 意识的进化是为了为目标导向的行为提供评估体验.
结论:
- 意识源于对外部信息进行解码的具体行为,而不是仅仅是内在状态.
- 动物的意识与一种进化,评估经验联系在一起,支持感知-行动循环.
- 了解意识需要关注生物系统中信息处理的功能作用.
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