意识究竟是什么？或许我们对这一概念的理解从根本上就是错的

Maybe our understanding of the concept itself is fundamentally wrong BY TIM BAYNE ILLUSTRATIONS BY DTAN STUDIO WRITE THIS FROM SANTIAGO, nestled between the snow-capped Andes to the east and the Chilean Coastal Range to the west. I am here with about 500 other consciousness researchers for our most important annual meeting. A key theme of this year’s gathering is the distribution of consciousness: When does consciousness first emerge in human development? Which animals are conscious, and might it occur in artificial-intelligence systems? And can we construct a consciousness detector, something that might tell us whether, say, babies, bees or bots are members of the “consciousness club”? These questions are among the most intractable of scientific problems. …