Abstract Characterizing the first- and third-person perspectives is essential to the study of consciousness, yet we lack a rigorous definition of or criteria for these two perspectives. Our intuitive understanding of how personal pronouns help to specify the perspectives gives rise to mutually exclusive notions of the first-person perspective. This contradiction thwarts our progress in studying consciousness. We can resolve the current ambiguity of the first-person perspective by introducing a new distinction between the first-person and third-person perspectives, based on two modes of consciousness: reflective and non-reflective. The purpose of this paper is to explain this new proposal, to elucidate the grounds for it, and to briefly suggest benefits from its use.

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对第一人称和第三人称视角的新认识

摘要表征第一人称视角和第三人称视角对于意识的研究至关重要，但是我们对这两种观点缺乏严格的定义或标准。我们对人称代词如何帮助指定视角的直观理解引起了第一人称视角的互斥概念。这种矛盾阻碍了我们学习意识的进步。通过基于两种意识模式：反思和非反思，在第一人称视角和第三人称视角之间引入新的区别，我们可以解决第一人称视角的当前歧义。本文的目的是解释该新建议，阐明其依据，并简要地提出使用它的好处。