从结构与质性关系切入，构建意识研究新框架。
Structure & Quality: Conceptual and Formal Foundations for the Mind-Body Problem
- 提出结构与质性互定性的信息论度量方法
- 构建Q-S空间实现二者的匹配分析
- 为功能主义等哲学立场提供理论依据
本文从全新视角探讨意识的难题，不区分物理与心理，而是聚焦结构与质性之间的基础关系。提出信息论度量方法，量化结构与质性间的相互可确定性，构建新颖的Q-S空间以分析二者间的保真度。该空间自然导向五类可能的关系分类，并通过概念与形式模型加以说明。每类关系的本体论含义被深入探讨，为功能主义、涌现论、唯心主义、泛心论和中立一元论等争论提供了新洞见。该研究建立的框架可推导出演化中质性系统需满足的理论约束，详见配套论文《Qualia & Natural Selection》。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
This paper explores the hard problem of consciousness from a different perspective. Instead of drawing distinctions between the physical and the mental, an exploration of a more foundational relationship is examined: the relationship between structure and quality. Information-theoretic measures are developed to quantify the mutual determinability between structure and quality, including a novel Q-S space for analyzing fidelity between the two domains. This novel space naturally points toward a five-fold categorization of possible relationships between structural and qualitative properties, illustrating each through conceptual and formal models. The ontological implications of each category are examined, shedding light on debates around functionalism, emergentism, idealism, panpsychism, and neutral monism. This new line of inquiry has established a framework for deriving theoretical constraints on qualitative systems undergoing evolution that is explored in my companion paper, Qualia & Natural Selection.
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