Josipovic Zoran
Psychology Department, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, New York University, New York, NY, United States; NYU Langone Medical Center, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States; Nonduality Institute, Woodstock, NY, United States.
Prog Brain Res. 2019;244:273-298. doi: 10.1016/bs.pbr.2018.10.021. Epub 2019 Jan 3.
I introduce arguments toward a non-representational reflexivity theory of consciousness-as-such to address one of the key issues in the science of consciousness today: lack of understanding of the nature of consciousness itself. An expanded map of consciousness is outlined, which includes, in addition to the well-known contents of awareness and levels of arousal, the indeterminate substrate and consciousness-as-such or nondual awareness. The central idea presented is that consciousness-as-such is a non-conceptual nondual awareness, whose essential property is non-representational reflexivity. This property makes consciousness-as-such phenomenologically, cognitively and neurobiologically a unique kind, different from and irreducible to any contents, functions and states, including the indeterminate substrate. Our previous hypothesis on the precuneus network for nondual awareness is further discussed in relation to non-representational reflexivity, and in the light of other hypotheses on the neural correlates of consciousness-as-such.
我提出了一种关于本真意识的非表征性自反性理论的观点，以解决当今意识科学中的一个关键问题：对意识本身性质的理解不足。文中勾勒了一幅扩展的意识图谱，除了众所周知的意识内容和觉醒水平外，还包括不确定的基质以及本真意识或不二觉知。所提出的核心观点是，本真意识是一种非概念性的不二觉知，其本质属性是非表征性自反性。这一属性使本真意识在现象学、认知和神经生物学上成为一种独特的类型，不同于且不能还原为任何内容、功能和状态，包括不确定的基质。我们之前关于楔前叶网络与不二觉知的假设，将结合非表征性自反性，并根据其他关于本真意识神经关联的假设进行进一步讨论。
