人类渴望被理解，催生了意识表达，却也导致难以解释主观体验。
Wanting to Be Understood Explains the Meta-Problem of Consciousness
- 用外在符号（语言、艺术）表达内心状态，是意识可用的前提。
- 意识可用性带宽极小，无法完全还原丰富内在体验。
- 对被彻底理解的执念，让意识难题持续存在，但激发持续创造。
由于我们极度渴望被理解，便创造了外部表征形式——拟态、语言、艺术——以表达内在状态。我们认为这些外在表征是访问意识（即信息对推理全局可用）的先决条件。然而，访问意识的带宽远小于‘原始经验’的丰富程度，因此任何外部表征都无法完整再现其全部内容。通常，解释经验只需让听众‘把握’相关模式即可，无须重现现象本身。但我们的理解欲求与有限的感知运动能力之间的不匹配，使人们对‘体验感受’的解释始终无法满足。正是这种被过度期待的解释需求（即期望自己或他人能完美理解自身）而非不可逾越的形而上鸿沟，维系着意识难题的存续。不过，值得庆幸的是，我们永远不会停止创造新的方式来表达和思考经验。从这一视角看，有意识地存在，即是努力使自我与他人的主体性被理解。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Because we are highly motivated to be understood, we created public external representations -- mime, language, art -- to externalise our inner states. We argue that such external representations are a pre-condition for access consciousness, the global availability of information for reasoning. Yet the bandwidth of access consciousness is tiny compared with the richness of `raw experience', so no external representation can reproduce that richness in full. Ordinarily an explanation of experience need only let an audience `grasp' the relevant pattern, not relive the phenomenon. But our drive to be understood, and our low level sensorimotor capacities for `grasping' so rich, that the demand for an explanation of the feel of experience cannot be ``satisfactory''. That inflated epistemic demand (the preeminence of our expectation that we could be perfectly understood by another or ourselves) rather than an irreducible metaphysical gulf -- keeps the hard problem of consciousness alive. But on the plus side, it seems we will simply never give up creating new ways to communicate and think about our experiences. In this view, to be consciously aware is to strive to have one's agency understood by oneself and others.
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