A Philosophical Study On Consciousness

The philosophical study of consciousness is discussed in this paper to focus on the scientific findings and the context method, which includes the following parts:(1) The ontological interpretation of consciousness outlines some currently main mind theories of deconstruction which hold materialistic monism and the mind theories of dualism, and analyses a new ontological standard in cognitive phenamina, digital ontology and stuacture otology, and proves the latter by means of context. It shows there exists a new ontological standard in cognitive phenomenon, structural ontology of consciousness. This would help to fill a vacancy in our knowledge that context is just used as method to specific phenomena of consciousness, while we have concerned on the significant ontological meaning of context for consciousness. Contextualism holds that the mechanism of consciousness depends on the context assessed by agents.(2) The context epistemology of consciousness. We analysis the features of context models of consciousness, and attempts to explain the important questions of quail, identity and function of consciousness in mind philosophy in accordance with context. The features of context models of consciousness contains context which is a information process for some kind of fixed information which consisted of unconscious specialized processors, the context hierarchy which is make up of contexts, and the transfer process between conscious contents and unconscious context. The quail question results from the transfer process between conscious contents and unconscious context, and the identity comes from the context hierarchy, so the experience of quail and identity dose really exist. Based on this, consciusness is functional and a biological mechanism, which co-exists with unconsciousness in our body.(3)The methodology study of consciousness contains the first-person method of phenomenology, the third-person reductionism method of functionism and neurosciences. By comparison, it proves that the first-person method relies heavily on the conscious experience itself, but lacks a maneuverable study guideline for consciousness, and could not provide a reasonable interpretation to causal closure principle. While the third-person method relies heavily on the objective information process in brain,or the physiological chemical changes in brain. But it could not explain how such process or changes result in subjective experience. Context not only provides a useful interpretation to how consciousness generate in our brain, but also has objective operability, which is proved in cognitive psychology and neuroscience.(4) The cognitive architecture of consciousness. In fact, cognitivism and connectionism could not reasonably explicate the generation mechanism of consciousness, so it is necessary to construct a cognitive architecture for consciousness. In this paper, the author digs the correlation between context and the capability mechanism of intelligence system, including why context is the core of cognitive architecture, the possibility of constructing cognitive architecture with context and how context works in cognitive architecture and its function and more importantly, further discovers the different philosophical basic assumption between "context","symbol" and "connect", and proves context is compatible with coupling mechanism of dynamical system.All the study shows that correlation of context and consciousness has not only experimental evidence of specific sciences, but also embodies a new philosophical thought, and become a study of modern scientific technology and humanistic understanding, etc.