论文标题
超出神经领域的意识：扩大尚未发生的可能性
Consciousness beyond neural fields: expanding the possibilities of what has not yet happened
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论文摘要
在物理学的现场理论中，可以客观地测量和/或数学地核算其假定时空连续体的任何特定区域以及其中的基本对象之间的所有相互作用。由于这不适用于意识的任何领域理论或任何其他神经理论，因此它们的解释力是有限的。正如本文详细讨论的那样，事实比任何科学操作的意识定义更加复杂，这不可避免地是部分的，并且现象没有空间维度。根据有关冥想和扩大意识，慢性疼痛综合征，健康衰老和eudaimonic幸福感的见解，我们可以将意识视为没有明确定义的空间维度的势能的来源，但可以在世界上和世界上产生重大变化，并且在时间上观察到了时间的变化。有人认为，意识可能已经发展为使人类能够产生这种变化，以应对前所未有的和/或不可预测的逆境。当地球上的生存不再是可接受的选择时，这种应对最终可能包括我们自身灭绝的有意识计划。
In the field theories in physics, any particular region of the presumed space-time continuum and all interactions between elementary objects therein can be objectively measured and/or accounted for mathematically. Since this does not apply to any of the field theories, or any other neural theory, of consciousness, their explanatory power is limited. As discussed in detail herein, the matter is complicated further by the facts than any scientifically operational definition of consciousness is inevitably partial, and that the phenomenon has no spatial dimensionality. Under the light of insights from research on meditation and expanded consciousness, chronic pain syndrome, healthy ageing, and eudaimonic well-being, we may conceive consciousness as a source of potential energy that has no clearly defined spatial dimensionality, but can produce significant changes in others and in the world, observable in terms of changes in time. It is argued that consciousness may have evolved to enable the human species to generate such changes in order to cope with unprecedented and/or unpredictable adversity. Such coping could, ultimately, include the conscious planning of our own extinction when survival on the planet is no longer an acceptable option.
