From Sensing to Sentience: How Feeling Emerges from the Brain

Feinberg, Todd E.

  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2024-10-01
  • 售價: $1,410
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$1,340
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 216
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 0262550954
  • ISBN-13: 9780262550956
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商品描述

A new theory of Neurobiological Emergentism that explains how sentience emerges from the brain.

Sentience is the feeling aspect of consciousness. In From Sensing to Sentience, Todd Feinberg develops a new theory called Neurobiological Emergentism (NBE) that integrates biological, neurobiological, evolutionary, and philosophical perspectives to explain how sentience naturally emerges from the brain.

Emergent properties are broadly defined as features of a complex system that are not present in the parts of a system when they are considered in isolation but may emerge as a system feature of those parts and their interactions. Tracing a journey of billions of years of evolution from life to the basic sensing capabilities of single-celled organisms up to the sentience of animals with advanced nervous systems, including all vertebrates (for instance, fish, reptiles, birds, and mammals), arthropods (insects and crabs), and cephalopods such as the octopus, Feinberg argues that sentience gradually but eventually emerged along diverse evolutionary lines with the evolution of sufficiently neurobiologically complex brains during the Cambrian period over 520 million years ago.

Ultimately, Feinberg argues that viewing sentience as an emergent process can explain both its neurobiological basis as well its perplexing personal nature, thus solving the historical philosophical problem of the apparent "explanatory gap" between the brain and experience.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

一種新的神經生物學的涌現主義理論,解釋了意識是如何從大腦中產生的。

意識的感受層面被稱為意識的感覺。在從感知到意識一書中,Todd Feinberg 發展出一種名為神經生物學的涌現主義 (NBE)的新理論,該理論整合了生物學、神經生物學、進化論和哲學的觀點,以解釋意識是如何自然地從大腦中產生的。

涌現特性被廣泛定義為一個複雜系統的特徵,這些特徵在考慮系統的各個部分時並不存在於孤立狀態,但可能作為這些部分及其相互作用的系統特徵而出現。Feinberg 追溯了從生命到單細胞生物的基本感知能力,再到具有先進神經系統的動物的意識的數十億年進化歷程,包括所有脊椎動物(例如魚類、爬行類、鳥類和哺乳類)、節肢動物(昆蟲和螃蟹)以及如章魚等頭足類動物,主張意識隨著足夠神經生物學複雜的大腦的進化而逐漸但最終在不同的進化路徑上出現,這一過程發生在5.2億年前的寒武紀時期。

最終,Feinberg 主張將意識視為一個涌現過程,可以解釋其神經生物學基礎以及其令人困惑的個人性質,從而解決大腦與經驗之間明顯的「解釋缺口」這一歷史哲學問題。

作者簡介

Todd E. Feinberg is Director of the Yarmon Neurobehavior and Alzheimer's Disease Center of Mount Sinai Behavioral Health Center in New York City and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York. He is coauthor of The Ancient Origins of Consciousness (MIT Press).

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Todd E. Feinberg 是紐約市 Mount Sinai 行為健康中心 Yarmon 神經行為與阿茲海默症中心的主任,以及 Mount Sinai 醫學院的臨床精神科教授。他是《The Ancient Origins of Consciousness》(麻省理工學院出版社)的共同作者。