ABSTRACT

In subjects with the split-brain syndrome, some conscious states appear to be disunified (e.g., visual states), while others remain unified (e.g., affective states). While placing emphasis on the disunities, disunity accounts conclude that split-brain subjects have two subjective perspectives and not one. I argue that affective unity is more important than perceptual disunity in delineating our subjective perspective. Unlike enjoying an objective perspective, enjoying a subjective perspective entails experiencing aspects of your phenomenal field in terms of their overall relation to you. What it’s like to be you at any given time entails experiencing certain aspects of the phenomenal field as peripheral to others. Emotion creates and sustains a center/periphery structure in our phenomenal field by signaling orders of perceived importance as well as orders of perceived changeability (e.g., to someone feeling grief, the experience of getting a ticket is felt as peripheral/unimportant to the experience of grief; to someone feeling depressed, the experience of reaching a hilltop is felt as peripheral/unattainable to the experience of laying down to rest). Since emotion plays a greater role than perception in creating and sustaining this periphery/center structure, and split-brain patients remain affectively unified, split-brain patients retain a unified subjective perspective on the world.

摘要

在患有裂脑综合征的受试者中，一些意识状态似乎是不统一的（例如，视觉状态），而其他意识状态则是统一的（例如，情感状态）。在强调不团结的同时，不团结的说法得出的结论是，裂脑受试者有两种主观观点，而不是一种。我认为，在描述我们的主观观点时，情感统一比感知上的不团结更为重要。与享受主观视角不同，享受主观视角需要体验现象领域与您的整体关系方面的各个方面。在任何给定时间成为您的感觉都需要经历现象领域的某些方面，而这些方面是其他方面的外围。情绪通过发出感知到的重要顺序以及感知到的可变性的顺序（例如，对于感到悲伤的人，获得门票的体验被认为是体验的外围/无关紧要），在我们的现象领域创建并维持了中心/外围结构。悲伤；对于感到沮丧的人来说，到达山顶的体验被认为是躺着休息的体验的外围/无法承受的。由于情感在建立和维持这种外围/中心结构中比感知发挥更大的作用，并且裂脑患者在情感上保持统一，因此裂脑患者在世界上保持统一的主观观点。对于感到沮丧的人来说，到达山顶的感觉与躺下休息的感觉一样是不可或缺的。由于情感在建立和维持这种外围/中心结构中比感知发挥更大的作用，并且裂脑患者在情感上保持统一，因此裂脑患者在世界上保持统一的主观观点。对于感到沮丧的人来说，到达山顶的感觉与躺下休息的感觉一样是不可或缺的。由于情感在建立和维持这种外围/中心结构中比感知发挥更大的作用，并且裂脑患者在情感上保持统一，因此裂脑患者在世界上保持统一的主观观点。