意识解释
Consciousness explained
Daniel C. Dennett · 初版 1991 年
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为什么值得读
- 认为意识本质是大脑建模产生的幻觉
- 提供唯物主义的心智哲学解释视角
- 破除关于意识的柏拉图式思维陷阱
本书修正了关于意识的传统观点，主张用来自神经科学、心理学和人工智能领域的理论，取代笛卡尔主义及 Descartes 的身心二元论。作者指出，人们所认为的意识流并非单一、统一的序列，而是由类计算机式的“virtual machine”所构成的对现实的“多重草稿”（multiple drafts）。Dennett 探讨了意识是如何在人类身上演化而来的，并直面意识的经典谜题：内省的本质、自我（self / ego）及其关……
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我发现丹·丹尼特的《意识的解释》（Consciousness Explained）真让我产生了强烈共鸣。他的论点是（在HN评论字数限制内尽量浓缩一整本书的话）：意识本质上是大脑所能构建出的最佳模型制造出的一种幻觉……
I found that Dan Dennett's "Consciousness Explained" really resonated with me. His thesis is (as best I can condense a whole book to fit in an HN comment) that consciousness is essentially an illusion produced by the brain as the best model it can construct…
……以及历史（它体内储存着你的整套基因组！）和复杂行为（它是只微小的活物！），以至于我们单拎出来根本无法理解它。我拿不准是该推荐丹尼特的《意识的解释》，还是该强推提问者先啃完《细胞分子生物学》，再看（比如）霍尔多布勒和威尔逊的《蚂蚁的故事》——然后接着一路读下去——再来试图轻视这种复杂性……
…and history (it's got your entire genome stored inside!) and complex behaviors (it's a tiny little creature!) that we can't even understand it in isolation. I'm not sure whether to recommend Dennett's Consciousness Explained or to compel the questioner to work through The Molecular Biology of the Cell, followed by (e.g.) Hölldobler and Wilson's Journey to the Ants -- and then keep going -- before trying to dismiss the complexity…
……曾有幸与他本人当面聊过，他陷入了柏拉图主义的陷阱。最好的解药是去和真正的神经生物学家聊聊，或者读读心灵哲学（比如丹尼尔·丹尼特的《意识的解释》）。同时我还推荐读读戴维·凯泽的《嬉皮士如何拯救物理学：科学、反文化与量子复兴》（http://www.hippiessavedphysics.com/）——这是一本通俗读物，讲的是……
…had a great pleasure of talking him in person, and he falls into the Platonic trap. The best antidote is to talk with some actual neurobiologists, or read philosophy of mind (e.g. Daniel Dennett with Consciousness Explained). At the same time I recommend reading "How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival" by David Kaiser (http://www.hippiessavedphysics.com/) - a general reading on the…
……可能还得再过一两代人的时间，丹尼特、道金斯、泰格马克等人的思想才会获得更广泛的认可，而意识最终也会步“燃素说”的后尘。参考资料方面，我推荐丹尼特的《意识的解释》，实际上丹尼尔·丹尼特和理查德·道金斯的任何书都行——唯物主义对意识的解释贯穿他们的作品。如果想了解一种兼容的（哈！）物理视角，我推荐马克斯·泰格马克：https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.1219
…take another generation or two before the ideas of Dennett, Dawkins, Tegmark, etc. get more widely recognized and consciousness finally goes the way of phlogiston. For references, I recommend Dennett's "Consciousness Explained", and really anything by Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins--materialistic explanations of consciousness pervade their work. For a compatible (hah!) physical perspective, I suggest Max Tegmark: https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.1219
……意识本身依旧十分神秘，但很难不得出这样的结论：它必然在某种程度上都是信息处理或数据运算的副产物。丹尼尔·丹尼特在这方面有不少真知灼见（参见《意识的解释》等）。倒不是说他掌握了最终答案，而是他的核心观点在于：意识可能跟我们想象的根本不是一回事，这周围有大量的思维陷阱，所以我们必须小心翼翼地抽丝剥茧……
…consciousness itself are still very mysterious, but it's hard to avoid the conclusion that it must all be a side effect of processing or information somehow. Daniel Dennett has some good stuff on this (see Consciousness Explained, etc). Its not that he knows the answers, but his point is that consciousness might not be exactly what we think it is, there are lots of thought-traps around it, so we have to carefully unpick some of…
大约10年前的高中哲学课上，我第一次接触到“意识的难题”（Hard Problem of Consciousness），从那以后就一直在琢磨它。如今我很赞同丹尼特在《意识的解释》中的论点：根本不存在单一的笛卡尔剧场，大脑中存在若干个处理进程，它们与我们内在体验到的东西是同一回事（在对“同一”定义的精度范围内），并且很多特性我们……
I was introduced to the "Hard Problem of Consciousness" some 10 years ago in high school philosophy class, and have been mulling over it ever since. Today I am sympathetic to Dennett's argument in Consciousness Explained: there is no single Cartesian theater, there are several processes in the brain which are the same thing (up to the precision of definition of same) as we internally experience, and many properties we…