Aleksander Igor, Morton Helen
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Imperial College, Room 615, South Kensington Campus, London, UK.
Prog Brain Res. 2008;168:77-93. doi: 10.1016/S0079-6123(07)68007-8.
In this chapter we present a computational architecture intended to add clarity to the concept of consciousness. We briefly review some of the motivations of work done in this area in various institutes around the world and looks closely at our own work which specifically includes phenomenology, the sense of a self in a perceptual world. This breaks consciousness into five axioms: presence, imagination, attention, volition and emotions. It develops plausible mechanisms of each and how they interact to give a single sensation. An abstract architecture, the kernel architecture, is introduced as a starting point for building computational models. It is shown that through this architecture it is possible to discuss puzzling aspects of consciousness, for example are animals conscious? What happens when we dream? What goes on when we experience an illusion? This paper is intended to elucidate and update some concepts introduced in Aleksander (2005).
在本章中，我们提出一种计算架构，旨在使意识概念更加清晰。我们简要回顾世界各地各机构在该领域开展工作的一些动机，并仔细审视我们自己的工作，其中特别包括现象学，即在感知世界中的自我意识。这将意识分解为五个公理：存在感、想象力、注意力、意志和情感。它阐述了每个公理的合理机制以及它们如何相互作用以产生单一感觉。引入了一种抽象架构——核心架构，作为构建计算模型的起点。结果表明，通过这种架构可以讨论意识中令人困惑的方面，例如动物有意识吗？我们做梦时会发生什么？我们产生幻觉时会怎样？本文旨在阐明并更新亚历山大（2005年）中引入的一些概念。
