论文标题
建模意识的方面：拓扑视角
Modelling aspects of consciousness: a topological perspective
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论文摘要
注意模式理论（AST）是一项最新建议，旨在为主观意识提供科学解释。在AST中，大脑构建了注意力的表示，以其自己（和其他人）的思想（“注意力架”）。此外，出于效率原因，这种表示不完整。注意力模式的这种固有的不完整导致人类无法理解自己的主观意识是如何产生的（与所谓的意识“硬问题”有关）。鉴于这一理论，本文询问纳入关注并包含其注意力的表现的思想（基于人的或基于机器的人）是否可以具有完整的代表。使用一个简单但一般的模型和基于经典拓扑的数学论点，我们表明，由于无法忠实地表示关注流，因此无法完全表现注意力。通过这种方式，该研究支持AST的核心方面之一，即大脑对自己的注意力的表现必然是不完整的。
Attention Schema Theory (AST) is a recent proposal to provide a scientific explanation for the basis of subjective awareness. In AST, the brain constructs a representation of attention taking place in its own (and others') mind (`the attention schema'). Moreover, this representation is incomplete for efficiency reasons. This inherent incompleteness of the attention schema results in the inability of humans to understand how their own subjective awareness arises (related to the so-called `hard problem' of consciousness). Given this theory, the present paper asks whether a mind (either human or machine-based) that incorporates attention, and that contains a representation of its own attention, can ever have a complete representation. Using a simple yet general model and a mathematical argument based on classical topology, we show that a complete representation of attention is not possible, since it cannot faithfully represent streams of attention. In this way, the study supports one of the core aspects of AST, that the brain's representation of its own attention is necessarily incomplete.
