Over the past two decades, Ginsburg and Jablonka have developed a novel approach to studying the evolutionary origins of consciousness: the Unlimited Associative Learning (UAL) framework. The central idea is that there is a distinctive type of learning that can serve as a transition marker for the evolutionary transition from non-conscious to conscious life. The goal of this paper is to stimulate discussion of the framework by providing a primer on its key claims (Part I) and a clear statement of its main empirical predictions (Part II).

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无限联想学习和意识的起源：入门和一些预测

在过去的二十年里，金斯伯格和贾布隆卡开发了一种研究意识进化起源的新方法：无限联想学习 (UAL) 框架。中心思想是有一种独特的学习类型可以作为从无意识到有意识的进化过渡的过渡标记。本文的目标是通过提供其关键主张的入门（第一部分）和对其主要经验预测的清晰陈述（第二部分）来激发对该框架的讨论。