Blurred Lines: Memory, Perceptions, and Consciousness: Commentary on "Consciousness as a Memory System" by Budson et al (2022).

IF 1.3 4区 医学 Q4 BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
Hinze Hogendoorn
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Abstract

In the previous issue, Budson, Richman, and Kensinger (2022) put forth the intriguing proposal that consciousness may have evolved from the episodic memory system. In addition to providing a possible evolutionary trajectory for consciousness, I believe that viewing consciousness as an extension of memory in this way is particularly useful for understanding some of the puzzling temporal complexities that are inherent to consciousness. For example, due to neural transmission delays, our conscious experience must necessarily lag the outside world, which creates a paradox for both conscious perception (Do we see the past, rather than the present?) and action (How can we make rapid decisions if it takes so long to become conscious of something?). These paradoxes can be elegantly solved by treating consciousness as a memory system. Finally, the proposal put forth by Budson and colleagues (2022) aligns with the emerging perspective that consciousness, like memory, represents a narrative time line of events rather than any single instant. However, I believe that this conceptualization can be further extended to include not only the past, but also the future. In this way, consciousness can be provocatively viewed as the remembered past, present, and future.

模糊的线条:记忆、感知和意识:布德森等人对“意识作为记忆系统”的评论(2022)。
在上一期中,Budson、Richman和Kensinger(2022)提出了一个有趣的建议,即意识可能是从情节记忆系统进化而来的。除了为意识提供一个可能的进化轨迹外,我相信以这种方式将意识视为记忆的延伸,对于理解意识固有的一些令人困惑的时间复杂性特别有用。例如,由于神经传递延迟,我们的意识体验必然滞后于外部世界,这就给意识感知(我们看到的是过去,而不是现在吗?)和行动(如果意识到某件事需要这么长时间,我们如何快速做出决定?)带来了悖论。这些悖论可以通过将意识视为一个记忆系统来优雅地解决。最后,Budson及其同事(2022)提出的建议与新出现的观点一致,即意识和记忆一样,代表了事件的叙事时间线,而不是任何一个瞬间。然而,我相信,这种概念化可以进一步扩展,不仅包括过去,还包括未来。通过这种方式,意识可以被挑衅性地视为记忆中的过去、现在和未来。
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CiteScore
2.40
自引率
7.10%
发文量
68
审稿时长
>12 weeks
期刊介绍: Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology (CBN) is a forum for advances in the neurologic understanding and possible treatment of human disorders that affect thinking, learning, memory, communication, and behavior. As an incubator for innovations in these fields, CBN helps transform theory into practice. The journal serves clinical research, patient care, education, and professional advancement. The journal welcomes contributions from neurology, cognitive neuroscience, neuropsychology, neuropsychiatry, and other relevant fields. The editors particularly encourage review articles (including reviews of clinical practice), experimental and observational case reports, instructional articles for interested students and professionals in other fields, and innovative articles that do not fit neatly into any category. Also welcome are therapeutic trials and other experimental and observational studies, brief reports, first-person accounts of neurologic experiences, position papers, hypotheses, opinion papers, commentaries, historical perspectives, and book reviews.
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