在人的意识经验中,有一个“为我”的方面,即感受性的成分,这是认知意义的最初起源。为了探究认知意义的起源,我们必须扩展心智表征计算观念。脑-身体的神经系统不仅可以完成信息处理,在系统整体层面上,它还涌现出“为我”的感受性。因为感受性,智能体的认知行为获得了定向和意义;智能体的情感、情绪、意动不再是认知的无关因素,相反,在认知的意义中它们是根本的。基于这个扩展的表征观,可知言语思维不是一个单一流程,而是思维的生成和表达的统一。在言语思维过程中,存在三个矛盾,正是这三个矛盾构成了人类言语思维发展的动力。
In man's conscious experience,there exists from the very beginning an idiosyncrasy of ″for-me″,i.e.″quale″,the origin of cognition.Since Computational Theory of Mind takes the objectivist view of meaning,the classic view of representation totally ignores the individual,subjective qualia of the cognitive agent.However,unlike computer,man's cognition is not merely a process of computation,but also a connection with basic intentional meanings between himself and the world.As man's thinking begins with the expression of a certain intentional meaning,and as the expression of any meaning always takes on a form of the presentation of body-movement schema,mental image or language,he will do it by means of neural activities of the internal integrated brain-and-body system.To probe into the origin of cognition,it is claimed in this paper that we should extend the notion of Computational Theory of Mind.The brain-and-body neural system does have the capacity of processing input information,and in the meantime emerging the qualia of ″for-me″ as well.Because of qualia,the agent's cognitive behaviors get their orientations and meanings.Therefore,the agent's emotion,mood and conation no longer unrelate to cognition,and indeed,they play an essential role in the processing of cognitive meaning.Based on this view,we are trying to explain the process of verbal thinking.Verbal thinking is not a single flow,but the integration of generation and expression of the meaning.The generation of thinking is a process of semantic generation in the brain of an individual,which presents the individual characteristic in the generation and process of meaning,and the generation of thinking is centered on meaning.The expression of thinking is a process of orientation intentional communication dependent on grammatical rules.Thus,it must satisfy the needs of commonality of communication and must be restricted by stricter grammatical rules while expressed in words.We have found that there are three contradictions in the process of