کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5041914 1474163 2017 19 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
A neuro-cognitive defense of the unified self
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
دفاع عصبی شناختی از خود متحد
کلمات کلیدی
خود، علوم اعصاب شناختی، آگاهی تصمیم سازی، نظریه فضای کاری عصبی جهانی، حافظه کاری، عمل،
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی علوم اعصاب شناختی
چکیده انگلیسی


- Self-representations (SRs) in the brain are distinct from their referents.
- One type of concept-level SR humans possess is of a conscious, decision-making agent.
- Skeptical arguments have suggested that this SR fails to refer to anything in the brain.
- I argue that this SR instead successfully refers to the global workspace network.
- This network acts as a unified system for consciously perceiving and deciding.

The topic of the self remains one of considerable controversy, and many arguments have been put forth suggesting the intuitive concept of self must be in some way mistaken - in part based on results in the cognitive and neural sciences. In this article I offer the alternative positive proposal that “the self” may indeed refer to a physical/computational system within the brain. To do this, I draw on empirical work regarding the neural basis of consciousness and decision-making, and on philosophical work regarding ecological control, unified group perspectives, and functional/mechanistic explanation. The work I review jointly supports the conclusion that a “core-circuit” of interacting cortical regions - the global workspace network - can be understood as a unified system for consciously perceiving and deciding, and thus fulfills many of the roles intuitively assigned to the self. I conclude that this self-concept need not be mistaken given current empirical knowledge.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Consciousness and Cognition - Volume 48, February 2017, Pages 21-39
نویسندگان
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