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Mind-Reading: From Functional Neuroimaging to the Philosophy of Mind

读心术：从功能神经影像到心灵哲学

基本信息

批准号：
AH/J007064/1
负责人：
Timothy Bayne
金额：
$ 3.9万
依托单位：
University of Manchester
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2012
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2012 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FJ007064%2F1
关键词：
Mind Reading Functional Neuroimaging Philosophy

项目摘要

In the last decade, functional neuroimaging has gone from being a relatively minor component of the sciences of the mind to being one of their central resources. Not only is neuroimaging being used to uncover the information-processing structure of the mind, it is now also being used as a 'mind-reading' technique. In neural mind-reading (or 'brain decoding') studies, information about an individual's brain states is used to ascribe mental states -- such as thoughts, intentions, and conscious experiences -- to an individual. The aim of this project is to examine the methodology, scope and philosophical implications of neuroimaging-based mind-reading.Mind-reading raises three important questions that fall at the interface between neuroscience and the philosophy of mind. The first question concerns its methodology. Current mind-reading studies employ a correlational method that involves the use of previously established correlations between neural states and mental states. However, as yet there is no systematic analysis of the use of neural-mental correlations to attribute mental states. One of the central objectives of this project is to engage in a conceptually rigorous examination of the correlational method so as to place mind-reading research on a firm methodological foundation.A second question concerns the potential scope of mind-reading research. Thus far mind-reading studies have targeted only a very limited range of mental states and have been restricted to highly-constrained laboratory environments. It is unclear whether mind-reading research can overcome these limitations. With a few notable exceptions, mind-reading research has also been restricted to neurologically unimpaired individuals. We will examine the prospects of extending mind-reading techniques so that they might include a broad range of mental states, individuals who are in natural behavioural environments, and human beings with serious neurological impairments or even the members of other species.A third question raised by mind-reading research concerns its implications for philosophical accounts of the nature of, and our access to, mental states. With respect to the nature of mental states, developments in mind-reading have the potential to inform accounts of the relationship between mental states and brain states. For example, the successful of mind-reading initiatives would undermine conceptions of the mind which hold that there are no stable and systematic relations between neural states and mental states. With respect to our access to mental states, mind-reading threatens to undermine the authority that has traditionally been assigned to introspection and behaviour as sources of knowledge about an individual's mind. One of the central objectives of this project is to evaluate the potential impact of mind-reading on the use of introspection and behaviour to ascribe mental states to individuals, and to develop a framework in which information derived from neuroimaging can be integrated with that derived from introspection and behavior.To date, these challenges have been addressed and these implications evaluated only in a piecemeal way by cognitive neuroscientists and philosophers working largely in isolation from each other. The series of workshops and research visits that we have planned will put an end to that unhappy state of affairs by providing a research context in which leading cognitive neuroscientists and philosophers of mind can work together to respond to the challenges facing mind-reading and explore its implications. In sum, this initiative has the potential to provide the nascent science of mind-reading with the conceptual foundations that it requires, and to provide a much-needed assessment of its prospects and perils.

在过去的十年中，功能神经影像学已经从心智科学的一个相对次要的组成部分变成了其核心资源之一。神经影像学不仅被用来揭示大脑的信息处理结构，而且现在还被用作一种“读心”技术。在神经读心（或“大脑解码”）研究中，有关个人大脑状态的信息用于将精神状态（例如思想、意图和意识体验）归因于个人。该项目的目的是研究基于神经影像的读心术的方法、范围和哲学含义。读心术提出了神经科学和心灵哲学之间的三个重要问题。第一个问题涉及其方法论。当前的读心研究采用了一种相关方法，涉及使用先前建立的神经状态和精神状态之间的相关性。然而，迄今为止，还没有对使用神经心理相关性来归因心理状态进行系统分析。该项目的中心目标之一是对相关方法进行概念上的严格检验，以便将读心研究置于坚实的方法论基础上。第二个问题涉及读心研究的潜在范围。迄今为止，读心研究仅针对非常有限的心理状态范围，并且仅限于高度受限的实验室环境。目前尚不清楚读心研究是否可以克服这些局限性。除了一些明显的例外，读心研究也仅限于神经系统未受损的个体。我们将研究扩展读心术技术的前景，以便它们可能包括广泛的心理状态、处于自然行为环境中的个体、患有严重神经损伤的人类甚至其他物种的成员。读心术研究提出的第三个问题涉及其对心理状态本质和我们获得心理状态的途径的哲学解释的影响。就精神状态的本质而言，读心术的发展有可能为精神状态与大脑状态之间的关系提供信息。例如，读心术的成功将破坏认为神经状态和精神状态之间不存在稳定和系统关系的思想观念。就我们获得心理状态而言，读心术可能会破坏传统上认为内省和行为作为了解个人思想的来源的权威。该项目的核心目标之一是评估读心术对使用内省和行为将心理状态归因于个体的潜在影响，并开发一个框架，在该框架中，来自神经影像的信息可以与来自内省和行为的信息相整合。迄今为止，这些挑战已经得到解决，并且基本上由彼此独立工作的认知神经科学家和哲学家以零敲碎打的方式评估了这些影响。我们计划的一系列研讨会和研究访问将通过提供一个研究环境来结束这种不愉快的情况，在这个研究环境中，领先的认知神经科学家和心灵哲学家可以共同努力应对读心术面临的挑战并探索其含义。总之，这一举措有可能为新兴的读心科学提供所需的概念基础，并为其前景和危险提供急需的评估。