Neurophilosophical assessment of the representational theory of consciousness

在这个研究项目中，我发现了以下几点。声称我们无法在科学框架内理解意识经验的论点有各种问题。意识的表征理论认为意识经验本质上是表征外部世界如何的心理状态，它能系统地解释意识经验的各种特征，因而是最有前途的意识理论。尽管该理论存在一些严重的问题，但我们可以通过重新审视该理论中使用的表征概念来避免这些问题。

In this research project, I found the following things. The arguments that claim we cannot understand conscious experience within the scientific framework have various problems. The representational theory of consciousness, which claims that conscious experiences are essentially mental states representing how the external world is, can explain systematically various features of conscious experience and therefore is the most promising theory about consciousness. Though the theory has several serious problems, we can fend them off by re-examining the concept of representation used in the theory.