Psychological Science ›› 2011, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (4): 1012-1016.

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The Science of Consciousness on Integrating Experience and Brain ——A Review on Varela’s Neurophenomenology

CHEN Wei,   

  • Received:2011-02-25 Revised:2011-04-05 Online:2011-07-20 Published:2011-07-20

迈向整合脑与经验的意识科学——Varela的神经现象学述评

陈巍,郭本禹   

  1. 南京师范大学
  • 通讯作者: 郭本禹
  • 基金资助:

    2010年教育部人文社会科学研究一般项目;南京师范大学2010年优秀博士学位论文培养项目;江苏省2010年度普通高校研究生科研创新计划项目

Abstract:

One of the major challenges facing science of consciousness today is to provide an explanatory framework that accounts for both the subjectivity and neurobiology of consciousness, which is triggered by the difficult problem of consciousness. According to Varela’s neurophenomenology, conscious expericences are the products emerging from the activity of large-scale neural assemblies in brain, and neural phase synchronization is one of its forms. Subjectivity determines that the study of consciousness must integrate first person- and third person methods, so as to enable the relationship between subjective- and objective datas to become a reciprocal constraint.

Key words: conscious expericences, hard problem, neurophenomenology, first person methods, reciprocal constraint

摘要:

意识的困难问题引发了当代意识科学所面临的最大困境:构建一个能同时阐明意识的主观性及其神经生物学基础的研究纲领。为此,Varela提出了神经现象学方案,即意识经验是脑内大尺度神经集合活动的涌现结果,神经相位同步模式就是表现形式之一。意识的主观性决定了在意识研究中必须将第一人称方法与第三人称方法结合起来,使得主观与客观数据间形成互惠的约束。

关键词: 意识经验, 困难问题, 神经现象学, 第一人称方法, 互惠约束