Pepperell Robert
FOVOLAB, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
Front Psychol. 2018 Nov 1;9:2091. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02091. eCollection 2018.
To explain consciousness as a physical process we must acknowledge the role of energy in the brain. Energetic activity is fundamental to all physical processes and causally drives biological behavior. Recent neuroscientific evidence can be interpreted in a way that suggests consciousness is a product of the organization of energetic activity in the brain. The nature of energy itself, though, remains largely mysterious, and we do not fully understand how it contributes to brain function or consciousness. According to the principle outlined here, energy, along with forces and work, can be described as actualized differences of motion and tension. By observing physical systems, we can infer there is something it is like to undergo actualized difference from the intrinsic perspective of the system. Consciousness occurs because there is something it is like, intrinsically, to undergo a certain organization of actualized differences in the brain.
要将意识解释为一种物理过程，我们必须承认能量在大脑中的作用。能量活动是所有物理过程的基础，并因果性地驱动生物行为。最近的神经科学证据可以以一种表明意识是大脑中能量活动组织产物的方式来解释。然而，能量本身的本质在很大程度上仍然是神秘的，我们并不完全理解它是如何促进大脑功能或意识的。根据这里概述的原理，能量与力和功一起，可以被描述为运动和张力的实现差异。通过观察物理系统，我们可以从系统的内在视角推断出经历实现差异是什么样的。意识的产生是因为从本质上讲，经历大脑中某种实现差异的特定组织是有某种感受的。
