Objective correlates—behavioral, functional, and neural—provide essential tools for the scientific study of consciousness. But reliance on these correlates should not lead to the ‘fallacy of misplaced objectivity’: the assumption that only objective properties should and can be accounted for objectively through science. Instead, what needs to be explained scientifically is what experience is intrinsically—its subjective properties—not just what we can do with it extrinsically. And it must be explained; otherwise the way experience feels would turn out to be magical rather than physical. We argue that it is possible to account for subjective properties objectively once we move beyond cognitive functions and realize what experience is and how it is structured. Drawing on integrated information theory, we show how an objective science of the subjective can account, in strictly physical terms, for both the essential properties of every experience and the specific properties that make particular experiences feel the way they do.

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意识与错误的客观性谬误

客观关联——行为、功能和神经——为意识科学研究提供了重要的工具。但对这些相关性的依赖不应该导致“客观性错位的谬误”：假设只有客观属性才应该并且能够通过科学来客观地解释。相反，需要科学地解释的是体验本质上是什么——它的主观属性——而不仅仅是我们可以从外在地利用它做什么。并且必须对其进行解释；否则，体验的感觉将是神奇的，而不是物理的。我们认为，一旦我们超越认知功能并认识到经验是什么以及它是如何构成的，就有可能客观地解释主观属性。借助综合信息理论，我们展示了主观的客观科学如何以严格的物理术语解释每种体验的基本属性以及使特定体验产生感觉的特定属性。