Marchetti Giorgio
Mind, Consciousness and Language Research Center, Alano di Piave, Italy.
Front Psychol. 2022 Jul 28;13:913309. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.913309. eCollection 2022.
What distinguishes conscious information processing from other kinds of information processing is its phenomenal aspect (PAC), the-what-it-is-like for an agent to experience something. The PAC supplies the agent with a sense of self, and informs the agent on how its self is affected by the agent's own operations. The PAC originates from the activity that attention performs to detect the state of what I define "the self" (S). S is centered and develops on a hierarchy of innate and acquired values, and is primarily expressed via the central and peripheral nervous systems; it maps the agent's body and cognitive capacities, and its interactions with the environment. The detection of the state of S by attention modulates the energy level of the organ of attention (OA), i.e., the neural substrate that underpins attention. This modulation generates the PAC. The PAC can be qualified according to five dimensions: qualitative, quantitative, hedonic, temporal and spatial. Each dimension can be traced back to a specific feature of the modulation of the energy level of the OA.
有意识的信息处理与其他类型的信息处理的区别在于其现象学方面（PAC），即主体体验某事时的感受。PAC为主体提供自我意识，并告知主体其自我如何受到自身操作的影响。PAC源自注意力为检测我所定义的“自我”（S）的状态而进行的活动。S以先天和后天价值的层次结构为中心并发展，主要通过中枢和外周神经系统表达；它描绘了主体的身体和认知能力以及其与环境的相互作用。注意力对S状态的检测调节了注意力器官（OA）的能量水平，即支撑注意力的神经基质。这种调节产生了PAC。PAC可以根据五个维度进行界定：质的、量的、享乐的、时间的和空间的。每个维度都可以追溯到OA能量水平调节的特定特征。
