Humanities Department, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY, Long Island City, NY, USA.
Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY, USA.
Cogn Neuropsychol. 2020 May-Jun;37(3-4):213-215. doi: 10.1080/02643294.2020.1729713. Epub 2020 Feb 25.
In the interesting and thought-provoking article Grazziano and colleagues argue for their Attention Schema Theory (AST) of consciousness. They present AST as a unification of Global Workspace Theory (GWT), Illusionism, and the Higher-Order Thought (HOT) theory. We argue it is a mistake to equate 'subjective experience,' ad related terms, with dualism. They simply denote . Also, as presented, AST does not accurately capture the essence of HOT for two reasons. HOT is presented as a version of strong illusionism, which it isn't, and HOT requires that one be aware of one's mental life, and postulates that his consists in a re-representation of what is occurring at at the lower-order levels. However, the authors deny that AST involves re-representing visual stimuli. We close by proposing an alternative unification: GWT and AST provide crucial accounts of how lower-order states are assembled and maintained, but higher-order theory provides the account of subjective experience.
在这篇有趣且发人深省的文章中，格拉赞诺和同事们提出了他们的意识注意图式理论（AST）。他们将 AST 视为全局工作空间理论（GWT）、错觉论和高阶思维（HOT）理论的统一体。我们认为，将“主观体验”和相关术语等同于二元论是错误的。它们只是表示......。此外，由于呈现方式的原因，AST 并没有准确地捕捉到 HOT 的本质，原因有二。HOT 被呈现为一种强烈的错觉论版本，但实际上并非如此，并且 HOT 需要人们意识到自己的精神生活，并假设它由对较低层次发生的事情的重新表示组成。然而，作者否认 AST 涉及对视觉刺激的重新表示。我们最后提出了一种替代的统一：GWT 和 AST 提供了关于如何组装和维持较低层次状态的关键解释，但高阶理论提供了主观体验的解释。
