论新达尔文主义意识研究的哲学基础

On the Philosophical Foundation of the Neo-Darwinism Approach to Consciousness

意识领域的新达尔文主义路径以严格的科学厘定和定量模型为基础,研究意识现象的生物学基础以及与意识现象密切相关的心灵认知机制。首先,意识神经相关物研究在形而上方面并非含糊不清的,它体现了新达尔文主义意识研究试图实现的关于“意识是什么”的自然化解释。其次,从演化的角度看,将意识的产生作为一个信息共享机制,有助于解决认知科学哲学中“通用问题求解”和“专业模块”之间的矛盾。最后,新达尔文主义意识研究正试图运用这种新的研究范式为自由意志、自我、泛心论提供一种新的解释模型。这些趋势表明,意识的新达尔文主义自然观正在呈现一种整合趋势,它以认知神经科学、认知心理学的新发现为内容,以新达尔文主义的演化论为框架,试图完成心灵哲学中各个论题的大综合。

Based on the strict definition in science and the precise quantitative model,the Neo-Darwinism approach to consciousness focuses on the biological foundation of consciousness and the cognitive mechanism relating to conscious experience.Firstly,neural correlates of consciousness does not mean something obscure in metaphysics.It presents a kind of naturalizing explanation about what is consciousness,which the Neo-Darwinism approach to consciousness desires to achieve.Secondly,consciousness is viewed as a mechanism sharing information in the development of evolution,which helps the contradiction between“the general modularity”and“the special modularity”.Finally,the Neo-Darwinism approach to consciousness is trying to provide a new explanatory modal for free will,self and panpsychism with such new research paradigm.All these show there is a conformity trend in the Neo-Darwinism approach to consciousness whose context are new findings in cognitive neuroscience and cognitive psychology and whose framework is the Neo-Darwinism evolutionism,which is trying to achieve a thorough comprehensiveness among topics in mind philosophy.