Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
Cogn Neurosci. 2021 Jan-Jan;12(2):67-68. doi: 10.1080/17588928.2020.1838468. Epub 2020 Nov 11.
In the attention schema theory (AST), having an automatically constructed self-model that depicts you as containing consciousness makes you intuitively believe that you have consciousness. The reason why such a self-model evolved in the brains of complex animals is that it serves the useful role of modeling, and thus helping to control, the powerful and subtle process of attention, by which the brain seizes on and deeply processes information.
在注意模式理论（AST）中，拥有一个自动构建的自我模型，将你描绘为包含意识，会让你直观地相信自己有意识。这种自我模型在复杂动物的大脑中进化的原因是，它具有建模的有用作用，从而有助于控制注意力这一强大而微妙的过程，大脑通过注意力来获取和深入处理信息。
