使用稳定并行循环动力学理解和构建有意识系统的基础
Foundations for Understanding and Building Conscious Systems using Stable Parallel Looped Dynamics
摘要：
意识问题面临着几个挑战，原因有几个：（a）缺乏必要和充分的条件，没有这些条件，我们就不知道我们离解决方案有多近;（b）缺乏一个构建意识系统的综合框架;（c）缺乏解释低层次化学动力学和高层次抽象之间过渡的机制。在本文中，我使用一个新的框架来解决这些问题。核心结果是，一个人是“最低限度的”意识，当且仅当他知道至少一个真理。这让我们远离围绕意识的不确定性，而是同等地关注：（i）真理是什么，我们的大脑如何将它们相互表示/联系起来，以及（ii）我们如何获得一种认识真理的感觉。对于前一个问题，因为真理是不变的东西，我用一个叫做固定集合的动态概念来代替抽象概念。这些集合对于我们的大脑和其他稳定的并行循环系统来说是肯定存在的。日常事件之间的关系现在是使用固定集合之间的关系建立的，直到我们的大脑创造出一种独特的动态状态，称为固定集合的自我维持阈值“膜”。对于后一个问题，我提出了必要和充分的条件，以达到一种感觉，知道使用的定义连续性适用于抽象。结合这些结果，我现在说，一个人是最低限度意识的，当且仅当他的大脑有一个具有抽象连续路径的自我维持的动力膜。为了满足这种等效的自我维持膜条件而构建的合成系统似乎与人类意识没有区别。
英文摘要：
The problem of consciousness faced several challenges for a few reasons: (a) a lack of necessary and sufficient conditions, without which we would not know how close we are to the solution, (b) a lack of a synthesis framework to build conscious systems and (c) a lack of mechanisms explaining the transition between the lower-level chemical dynamics and the higher-level abstractions. In this paper, I address these issues using a new framework. The central result is that a person is 'minimally' conscious if and only if he knows at least one truth. This lets us move away from the vagueness surrounding consciousness and instead focus equivalently on: (i) what truths are and how our brain represents/relates them to each other and (ii) how we attain a feeling of knowing for a truth. For the former problem, since truths are things that do not change, I replace the abstract notion with a dynamical one called fixed sets. These sets are guaranteed to exist for our brain and other stable parallel looped systems. The relationships between everyday events are now built using relationships between fixed sets, until our brain creates a unique dynamical state called the self-sustaining threshold 'membrane' of fixed sets. For the latter problem, I present necessary and sufficient conditions for attaining a feeling of knowing using a definition of continuity applied to abstractions. Combining these results, I now say that a person is minimally conscious if and only if his brain has a self-sustaining dynamical membrane with abstract continuous paths. A synthetic system built to satisfy this equivalent self-sustaining membrane condition appears indistinguishable from human consciousness.
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