Kurthen M
Department of Epileptology, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Str. 25, Bonn, D-53105, Germany.
Conscious Cogn. 1999 Jun;8(2):155-8. doi: 10.1006/ccog.1999.0380.
Current neurobiological research on temporal binding in binocular rivalry settings contributes to a better understanding of the neural correlate of perceptual consciousness. This research can easily be integrated into a theory of conscious behavior, but if it is meant to promote a naturalistic theory of perceptual consciousness itself, it is confronted with the notorious explanatory gap argument according to which any statement of psychophysical correlations (and their interpretation) leaves the phenomenal character of, e.g., states of perceptual consciousness open. It is argued that research on temporal binding plays no role in a naturalistic theory of consciousness if the gap argument can be solved on internal philosophical grounds or if it turns out to be unsolvable at the time being. But there may be a way to dissolve or deconstruct it, and the accessibility of this way may well depend on scientific progress, including neurobiological research on the neural correlate of perceptual consciousness.
当前关于双眼竞争情境中时间绑定的神经生物学研究有助于更好地理解知觉意识的神经关联。这项研究可以很容易地整合到有意识行为的理论中，但如果它旨在推动关于知觉意识本身的自然主义理论，那么它就会面临臭名昭著的解释鸿沟论证，根据该论证，任何心理物理相关性的陈述（及其解释）都无法揭示例如知觉意识状态的现象特征。有人认为，如果可以基于内部哲学理由解决鸿沟论证，或者如果事实证明目前无法解决，那么关于时间绑定的研究在意识的自然主义理论中就不起作用。但也许有一种方法可以消解或解构它，而这种方法的可行性很可能取决于科学进展，包括关于知觉意识神经关联的神经生物学研究。
