arXiv:2510.01864q-bio.NCcs.AI2025-10

提出可计算的意识模块理论,用信息密度标签解释主观体验如何产生。

A Modular Theory of Subjective Consciousness for Natural and Artificial Minds

  • 将意识视为离散的信息整合态,由多维密度向量标记。
  • 高密度状态影响记忆与行为,压力增强记忆编码可验证。
  • 适合研究意识机制或构建人工意识系统的学者参考。

理解主观体验如何从信息处理中产生,是神经科学、认知科学和人工智能研究的核心挑战。模块化意识理论(MCT)提出一个生物基础扎实且计算明确的框架:意识是由一系列离散的整合信息态(IISs)构成。每个IIS是一个携带多维密度向量的信息包,该向量量化信息丰富度,其大小与主观强度相关,影响记忆、行为与经验连续性。来自身体和环境的输入经自适应过滤,由抽象、叙述、评估、自我评估等模块处理,整合为IIS。该信息包附带密度向量,传递至行为准备、记忆与决策模块,形成闭环。这解释了为何强标记状态对长期记忆与行动有更大影响。相较于全局工作空间理论、整合信息理论或高阶思维理论,MCT明确了完整的计算流程,生成离散的信息单元并具有可量化的内部结构。主观性被重新定义为密度标记信号的副产品,具备功能后果。该理论提出可检验预测,如压力增强记忆编码,并为生物与人工架构提供自然主义蓝图。在此视角下,意识并非不可还原的本质,而是复杂信息处理中可演化、可量化、可构造的特征。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Understanding how subjective experience arises from information processing remains a central challenge in neuroscience, cognitive science, and AI research. The Modular Consciousness Theory (MCT) proposes a biologically grounded and computationally explicit framework in which consciousness is a discrete sequence of Integrated Informational States (IISs). Each IIS is a packet of integrated information tagged with a multidimensional density vector that quantifies informational richness. Its magnitude correlates with subjective intensity, shaping memory, behavior, and continuity of experience. Inputs from body and environment are adaptively filtered, processed by modules (abstraction, narration, evaluation, self-evaluation), and integrated into an IIS. The resulting packet, tagged with its density vector, is transmitted to behavioral readiness, memory, and decision-making modules, closing the loop. This explains why strongly tagged states exert greater influence on long-term memory and action. Unlike Global Workspace Theory, Integrated Information Theory, or Higher-Order Thought, MCT specifies a full computational pipeline producing discrete informational units with quantifiable internal structure. Subjectivity is reframed as a correlate of the density-tagging signal with functional consequences. MCT generates testable predictions, such as stress enhancing memory encoding, and provides a naturalistic blueprint for both biological and artificial architectures. Consciousness, in this view, is not an irreducible essence but an evolvable, quantifiable, and constructible feature of complex information processing.

意识建模信息整合人工意识

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