Neural correlates of consciousness reconsidered

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• 作者：Joseph Neisser ; ^{neisserj@grinnell.edu}
• 关键词：NCC ; Neural correlates ; Consciousness ; Philosophy of neuroscience ; Neural mechanism ; Causal relevance ; Binocular rivalry ; Manipulationism ; Phenomenology ; Enactivism
• 刊名：Consciousness and Cognition
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：127_10538100
• 类别：cp
• 出版时间：June, 2012
• 卷：21
• 期：2
• 页码：681-690
• 文件大小：198 K

摘要

It is widely accepted among philosophers that neuroscientists are conducting a search for the neural correlates of consciousness, or NCC. conceptualized this research program as the attempt to correlate the contents of conscious experience with the contents of representations in specific neural populations. A notable claim on behalf of this interpretation is that the neutral language of 鈥渃orrelates鈥?frees us from philosophical disputes over the mind/body relation, allowing the science to move independently. But the experimental paradigms and explanatory canons of neuroscience are not neutral about the mechanical relation between consciousness and the brain. I argue that NCC research is best characterized as an attempt to locate a causally relevant neural mechanism and not as an effort to identify a discrete neural representation, the content of which correlates with some actual experience. It might be said that the first C in 鈥淣CC鈥?should stand for 鈥渃auses鈥?rather than 鈥渃orrelates.鈥?/div>