Northoff Georg
Royal Ottawa Healthcare Group, University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research, Ottawa, Canada; Taipei Medical University, Graduate Institute of Humanities in Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan; Taipei Medical University-Shuang Ho Hospital, Brain and Consciousness Research Center, New Taipei City, Taiwan; National Chengchi University, Research Center for Mind, Brain and Learning, Taipei, Taiwan; Centre for Cognition and Brain Disorders (CCBD), Normal University Hangzhou, Hangzhou, China.
Conscious Cogn. 2014 Nov;30:184-200. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2014.09.004. Epub 2014 Oct 6.
William James famously characterized consciousness by 'stream of consciousness' which describes the temporal continuity and flow of the contents of consciousness in our 'inner time consciousness'. More specifically he distinguished between "substantive parts", the contents of consciousness, and "transitive parts", the linkages between different contents. While much research has recently focused on the substantive parts, the neural mechanisms underlying the transitive parts and their characterization by the balance between 'sensible continuity' and 'continuous change' remain unclear. The aim of this paper is to develop so-called neuro-phenomenal hypothesis about specifically the transitive parts and their two phenomenal hallmark features, sensible continuity and continuous change in 'inner time consciousness'. Based on recent findings, I hypothesize that the cortical midline structures and their high degree of variability and strong low frequency fluctuations play an essential role in mediating the phenomenal balance between sensible continuity and continuous change.
威廉·詹姆斯以“意识流”对意识进行了著名的描述，该描述刻画了我们“内在时间意识”中意识内容的时间连续性和流动。更具体地说，他区分了“实体部分”（即意识内容）和“过渡部分”（即不同内容之间的联系）。虽然最近很多研究都集中在实体部分，但过渡部分背后的神经机制以及它们通过“可感知的连续性”和“持续变化”之间的平衡所呈现的特征仍不明确。本文的目的是针对过渡部分及其在“内在时间意识”中的两个现象学标志性特征——可感知的连续性和持续变化，提出所谓的神经现象学假设。基于最近的研究发现，我推测皮质中线结构及其高度的变异性和强烈的低频波动在介导可感知的连续性和持续变化之间的现象学平衡中起着至关重要的作用。
