期刊
ENTROPY
卷 21, 期 12, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/e21121234
关键词
consciousness; mathematics; category theory; neural correlates of consciousness; integrated information theory; temporospatial theory of consciousness
资金
- European Union [785907]
- Australian Research Council [DP180104128, DP180100396]
- Templeton World Charity Foundation, Inc [TWCF0199]
- JST CREST [JPMJCR17N2]
- JSP-KAKENHI [JP17H01277]
- UMRF
- CIHR
- uOBMRI
- PSI
Consciousness is a central issue in neuroscience, however, we still lack a formal framework that can address the nature of the relationship between consciousness and its physical substrates. In this review, we provide a novel mathematical framework of category theory (CT), in which we can define and study the sameness between different domains of phenomena such as consciousness and its neural substrates. CT was designed and developed to deal with the relationships between various domains of phenomena. We introduce three concepts of CT which include (i) category; (ii) inclusion functor and expansion functor; and, most importantly, (iii) natural transformation between the functors. Each of these mathematical concepts is related to specific features in the neural correlates of consciousness (NCC). In this novel framework, we will examine two of the major theories of consciousness, integrated information theory (IIT) of consciousness and temporospatial theory of consciousness (TTC). We conclude that CT, especially the application of the notion of natural transformation, highlights that we need to go beyond NCC and unravels questions that need to be addressed by any future neuroscientific theory of consciousness.
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