1.本章引自T.J.Sejnowski，“Consciousness，”Daedalus 144，no.1（2015）：123-132.参阅Francis H.C.Crick，What Mad Pursuit：A Personal View of Scientific Discovery（New York：Basic Books，1988）；Bob Hicks，“Kindra Crick's Mad Pursuit，”Oregon Art Watch，December 3，2015.http：//www.orartswatch.org/kindracricks-mad-pursuit/.

2.现在还没有统一的关于“意识”（consciousness）的科学定义，意识被用来指代许多不同的现象。对这个术语广义上的理解，包括保持清醒的状态，对自己周围环境的认知，对事物的认知或感知，以及大脑对自身和外界的认知。

3.F.Crick，“The Function of the Thalamic Reticular Complex：The Searchlight Hypothesis，”Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America 81，no.14（1984）：4586-4590.

4.F.Crick and C.Koch，“The Problem of Consciousness，”Scientific American 267，no.3（1992）：10-17；F.Crick and C.Koch，“Constraints on Cortical and Thalamic Projections：The No-Strong-Loops Hypothesis，”Nature 391，no.6664（1998）：245-250；F.Crick and C.Koch，“A Framework for Consciousness，”Nature Neuroscience 6，no.2（2003）：119-126；and F.Crick，C.Koch，G.Kreiman，and 1.Fried，“Consciousness and Neurosurgery，”Neurosurgery 55，no.2（2004）：273-281.

5.F.Crick and C.Koch，“Are We Aware of Neural Activity in Primary Visual Cortex？”Nature 375，no.6527（1995）：121-123；C.Koch，M.Massimini，M.Boly，and G.Tononi，“The Neural Correlates of Consciousness：Progress and Problems，”Nature Reviews Neuroscience 17（2016）：307-321.

6.R.Q.Quiroga，L.Reddy，G.Kreiman，C.Koch，and 1.Fried，“Invariant Visual Representation by Single Neurons in the Human Brain，”Nature 435，no.7045（2005）：1102-1107.

7.K.Deisseroth and M.J.Schnitzer，“Engineering Approaches to Illuminating Brain Structure and Dynamics，”Neuron 80，no.3（2013）：568-577.

8.V.Mante，D.Sussillo，K.V.Shenoy，and W.T.Newsome，“Context-Dependent Computation by Recurrent Dynamics in Prefrontal Cortex，”Nature 503，no.7474（2013）：78-84.

9.BRAIN Working Group，BRAIN 2025：A Scientiific Vision，Report to the Advisory Committee to the Director，NIH（Bethesda，MD：National Institutes of Health，June 5，2014），36.https：//www.braininitiative.nih.gov/pdf/BRAIN 2025_508 C.pdf.

10.Patricia Smith Churchland and Terrence J.Sejnowski，The Computational Brain，2nd ed.（Cambridge，MA：MIT Press，2016），183，221.

11.L.Chang and D.Y.Tsao.“The Code for Facial Identity in the Primate Brain，”Cell 169，no.6（2017）：1013-1028.e 14.

12.D.A.Bulkin and J.M.Groh，“Seeing Sounds：Visual and Auditory Interactions in the Brain，”Current Opinion in Neurobiology 16（2006）：415-419.(www.daowen.com)

13.D.M.Eagleman and T.J.Sejnowski，“Motion Integration and Postdiction in Visual Awareness，”Science 287，no.5460（2000）：2036-2038.

14.参阅Stephen L.Macknik，Susana Martinez-Conde，and Sandra Blakeslee，Sleights of Mind：What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions（New York：Henry Holt，2010）。

15.S.Dehaene and J.-P.Changeux，“Experimental and Theoretical Approaches to Conscious Processing，”Neuron 70，no.2（2011）：200-227.

16.S.Moeller，T.Crapse，L.Chang，and D.Y.Tsao，“The Effect of Face Patch Microstimulation on Perception of Faces and Objects，”Nature Neuroscience 20，no.6（2017）：743-752.

17.J.Parvizi，C.Jacques，B.L.Foster，N.Withoft，V.Rangarajan，K.S.Weiner，and K.Grill-Spector，“Electrical Stimulation of Human Fusiform Face-Selective Regions Distorts Face Perception，”Journal of Neuroscience 32，no.43（2012）：14915-14920.

18.BRAIN Working Group，BRAIN 2025：A Scientific Vision，pp.6，35，48.

19.Sejnowski，“What Are the Projective Fields of Cortical Neurons？”

20.L.Chukoskie，J.Snider，M.C.Mozer，R.J.Krauzlis，and T.J.Sejnowski，“Learning Where to Look for a Hidden Target，”Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 110，supp.2（2013）：10438-10445.

21.T.J.Sejnowski，H.Poizner，G.Lynch，S.Gepshtein，and R.J.Greenspan，“Prospective Optimization，”Proceedings of the IEEE 102，no.5（2014）：799-811.

22.在他去世后，他的同事克里斯托弗·科赫（Christof Koch）继续完成了这项工作。F.C.Crick and C.Koch，“What Is the Function of the Claustrum？”Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 360，no.1458（2005），1271 - 1279.

23.参阅Lewis Carroll，Alice's Adventures in Wonderland（London：Macmillan，1865），chap.6.