Wiese Wanja
Department of Philosophy, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
Front Psychol. 2018 May 29;9:693. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00693. eCollection 2018.
In , Metzinger (2004[2003]) introduces an approach to the scientific study of consciousness that draws on theories and results from different disciplines, targeted at multiple levels of analysis. Descriptions and assumptions formulated at, for instance, the phenomenological, representationalist, and neurobiological levels of analysis provide different perspectives on the same phenomenon, which can ultimately yield necessary and sufficient conditions for applying the concept of phenomenal representation. In this way, the "method of interdisciplinary constraint satisfaction (MICS)" (as it has been called by Weisberg, 2005) promotes our understanding of consciousness. However, even more than a decade after the first publication of , we still lack a mature science of consciousness. This paper makes the following meta-theoretical contribution: It analyzes the hurdles an approach such as MICS has yet to overcome and discusses to what extent existing approaches solve the problems left open by MICS. Furthermore, it argues that a unifying theory of different features of consciousness is required to reach a mature science of consciousness.
梅青格尔（2004[2003]）提出了一种意识科学研究方法，该方法借鉴了不同学科的理论和成果，针对多个分析层次。例如，在现象学、表征主义和神经生物学分析层次上形成的描述和假设，为同一现象提供了不同视角，最终可为应用现象表征概念提供必要和充分条件。通过这种方式，“跨学科约束满足方法（MICS）”（韦斯伯格，2005年如此称呼）增进了我们对意识的理解。然而，即便在其首次发表十多年后，我们仍缺乏一门成熟的意识科学。本文做出了以下元理论贡献：分析了诸如MICS之类的方法尚未克服的障碍，并讨论了现有方法在多大程度上解决了MICS遗留的问题。此外，本文认为需要一种关于意识不同特征的统一理论，才能实现一门成熟的意识科学。
