大脑无法充当数字计算机，因意识状态所需信息超脑容量。
Why the Brain Cannot Be a Digital Computer: History-Dependence and the Computational Limits of Consciousness
- 用信息论量化意识状态及其历史依赖性
- 意识状态所需信息量远超大脑存储能力
- 揭示计算模型在意识上的根本局限
本文提出一种新颖的信息理论证明，指出当前理解下的人脑无法作为经典数字计算机运行。通过系统量化可区分的意识状态及其历史依赖性，我们发现指定一个意识状态所需的最小信息量，远超人脑的物理信息容量。分析计算了表示可区分感官‘刺激帧’所需的比特长度，并表明意识具有强制的时间-历史依赖性，使信息需求量倍增，超出大脑的存储能力。这一数学方法为意识的计算模型提供了新见解，暗示非经典信息处理机制可能是解释意识体验所必需的。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
This paper presents a novel information-theoretic proof demonstrating that the human brain as currently understood cannot function as a classical digital computer. Through systematic quantification of distinguishable conscious states and their historical dependencies, we establish that the minimum information required to specify a conscious state exceeds the physical information capacity of the human brain by a significant factor. Our analysis calculates the bit-length requirements for representing consciously distinguishable sensory "stimulus frames" and demonstrates that consciousness exhibits mandatory temporal-historical dependencies that multiply these requirements beyond the brain's storage capabilities. This mathematical approach offers new insights into the fundamental limitations of computational models of consciousness and suggests that non-classical information processing mechanisms may be necessary to account for conscious experience.
Thank you to arXiv for use of its open access interoperability. PaperDance 不是 arXiv 官方产品；中文卡片由大模型生成，请以原文为准。