Focused Daydreaming and Mind-Wandering
Focused Daydreaming and Mind-Wandering
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DOI：
10.1007/s13164-014-0221-4
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发表时间：
2015-12-01
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2
通讯作者：
Dorsch, Fabian
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作者：
Dorsch, Fabian
在这篇论文中，我描述和讨论了在心灵哲学中被忽视的两种心理现象：专注的白日梦和走神。我的目的是要表明，它们的性质是相当不同的，尽管事实上，我们倾向于将两者归类为白日梦的实例。我认为，这两者之间的第一个区别在于，虽然专注的白日梦是想象的心理能动性（即，以自愿产生某些心理表征为目的的心理能动性）的一个实例，但走神不是--尽管这并不意味着走神完全不能涉及心理能动性。这种个体层面的能动性和目的性的差异，进一步导致了走神的实例并不构成意识流的统一和独立的部分，这与集中的白日梦形成了鲜明的对比。此外，这两种心理现象的不同之处在于它们是否具有叙事结构，以及我们如何理解所涉及的心理事件的连续性。
In this paper, I describe and discuss two mental phenomena which are somewhat neglected in the philosophy of mind: focused daydreaming and mind-wandering. My aim is to show that their natures are rather distinct, despite the fact that we tend to classify both as instances of daydreaming. The first difference between the two, I argue, is that, while focused daydreaming is an instance of imaginative mental agency (i.e. mental agency with the purpose to voluntarily produce certain mental representations), mind-wandering is not-though this does not mean that mind-wandering cannot involve mental agency at all. This personal-level difference in agency and purposiveness has, furthermore, the consequence that instances of mind-wandering do not constitute unified and self-contained segments of the stream of consciousness-in stark contrast to focused daydreams. Besides, the two kinds of mental phenomena differ in whether they possess a narrative structure, and in how we may make sense of the succession of mental episodes involved.