Objects Thought and Felt: Accounting for Conscious Phenomena beyond Perception in Mind-Object Identity

心物同一性是一种物理主义、外在论的意识理论，它认为意识与其对象在物理上是相同的，所有有意识的经验都是以一种或另一种形式的感知--对一个对象或一组对象的感知，而它本身就是物理上的。本论文旨在考察被广泛认为有别于客体知觉的现象，如抽象认知、自我意识和情感，并在心物同一性的框架内对它们进行解释，从而扩展和发展了这一理论。

Mind-object identity is a physicalist, externalist theory of consciousness that holds that consciousness is physically identical with its object, and that all conscious experience is perception in one form or another - perception of an object, or set of objects, which it itself physically is. The present dissertation aims to investigate phenomena which are widely held to be distinct from object-perception, such as cognition of abstracta, self-consciousness, and emotion, and account for them within the framework of mind-object identity, thereby extending and developing the theory.