Recent activities in virtually all fields engaged in consciousness studies indicate early signs of a structural turn, where verbal descriptions or simple formalisations of conscious experiences are replaced by structural tools, most notably mathematical spaces. My goal here is to offer three comments that, in my opinion, are essential to avoid misunderstandings in these developments early on. These comments concern metaphysical premises of structural approaches, the viability of structure-preserving mappings, and the question of what a structure of conscious experience is in the first place. I will also explain what, in my opinion, are the great promises of structural methodologies and how they might impact consciousness science at large.

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意识科学的结构性转变


最近几乎所有领域从事意识研究的活动都表明了结构转向的早期迹象，其中意识体验的口头描述或简单形式化被结构工具所取代，尤其是数学空间。我的目标是提出三点意见，我认为这对于避免早期对这些发展的误解至关重要。这些评论涉及结构方法的形而上学前提、结构保留映射的可行性以及意识体验的结构首先是什么的问题。我还将解释我认为结构方法论的巨大前景以及它们如何影响整个意识科学。