Department of Philosophy, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
Conscious Cogn. 2011 Dec;20(4):1091-107. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2010.09.010. Epub 2010 Oct 8.
In this paper, we address the different ways in which dream research can contribute to interdisciplinary consciousness research. As a second global state of consciousness aside from wakefulness, dreaming is an important contrast condition for theories of waking consciousness. However, programmatic suggestions for integrating dreaming into broader theories of consciousness, for instance by regarding dreams as a model system of standard or pathological wake states, have not yielded straightforward results. We review existing proposals for using dreaming as a model system, taking into account concerns about the concept of modeling and the adequacy and practical feasibility of dreaming as a model system. We conclude that existing modeling approaches are premature and rely on controversial background assumptions. Instead, we suggest that contrastive analysis of dreaming and wakefulness presents a more promising strategy for integrating dreaming into a broader research context and solving many of the problems involved in the modeling approach.
在本文中，我们探讨了梦境研究可以为跨学科意识研究做出贡献的不同方式。作为清醒状态之外的第二种全球意识状态，做梦是清醒意识理论的一个重要对比条件。然而，将梦境整合到更广泛的意识理论中的计划性建议，例如将梦境视为标准或病理清醒状态的模型系统，并没有产生直接的结果。我们回顾了现有的将梦境用作模型系统的建议，同时考虑到了关于建模概念以及梦境作为模型系统的充分性和实际可行性的担忧。我们的结论是，现有的建模方法还不成熟，并且依赖于有争议的背景假设。相反，我们认为，对梦境和清醒状态进行对比分析为将梦境整合到更广泛的研究背景中并解决建模方法中涉及的许多问题提供了更有前途的策略。
