ABSTRACT In the interesting and thought-provoking article Grazziano and colleagues argue for their Attention Schema Theory (AST) of consciousness. They present AST as a unification of Global Workspace Theory (GWT), Illusionism, and the Higher-Order Thought (HOT) theory. We argue it is a mistake to equate ‘subjective experience,’ ad related terms, with dualism. They simply denote experience. Also, as presented, AST does not accurately capture the essence of HOT for two reasons. HOT is presented as a version of strong illusionism, which it isn't, and HOT requires that one be aware of one's mental life, and postulates that his consists in a re-representation of what is occurring at at the lower-order levels. However, the authors deny that AST involves re-representing visual stimuli. We close by proposing an alternative unification: GWT and AST provide crucial accounts of how lower-order states are assembled and maintained, but higher-order theory provides the account of subjective experience.

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高阶记忆图式和意识体验

摘要在有趣且发人深省的文章中，Grazziano 及其同事为他们的注意力图式理论 (AST) 进行了辩论。他们将 AST 视为全球工作空间理论 (GWT)、幻觉主义和高阶思想 (HOT) 理论的统一。我们认为将“主观经验”（广告相关术语）等同于二元论是错误的。它们只是表示经验。此外，正如所介绍的，AST 没有准确地捕捉到 HOT 的本质有两个原因。HOT 被呈现为强幻觉主义的一种版本，但事实并非如此，HOT 要求人们意识到自己的心理生活，并假设他的存在是对在较低层次上发生的事情的重新表示。然而，作者否认 AST 涉及重新表示视觉刺激。我们最后提出了一个替代的统一：