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The problem of the ontological status of consciousness and its essential features

The problem of the ontological status of consciousness and its essential features

One of the great mysteries of the world is the human ability to perceive, to understand reality, that is human intelligence. It is striking in its beauty and power, nevitably and versatility. In General, qualitative features of human intelligence define the term consciousness, therefore, the question about the nature of consciousness, its occurrence and possible for centuries, were excited by the best representatives of humanity, inspired search and creative UPS. Music, poetry, all art, scientific exploration of the depths of being and other areas of intellectual activity seek to reveal the possibilities of human consciousness and unique magical inner world of man.

First impressions of consciousness have originated in ancient times when people came to the conclusion, the processes, that occur in their heads, different from the processes of nature, their view of the world, and therefore place in it, apart from the animal. Such special properties attributed to the soul as the manifestation of something supernatural.

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First the complexity of understanding and study of consciousness stand’s associated largely with the, what we cannot observe phenomena of consciousness directly, sensually, can't measure them, explore using a variety of devices. For example, famous American neuroscientist I. Pribram wrote, that at any level of research of the human brain is not fixed then, what we call thought, although the brain does not explore otherwise, than proceeding from the thesis, he is the organ of thought and consciousness. In SV’in connection with a specified sometimes put forward quite radical assertion, what of consciousness as a singular entity does not exist, Those can be reduced or the functions and processes of the human body or the reactions of the nervous system of the human organism to external factors (behaviorism in psychology, philosophical currents of naturalistic direction).

Only in the XX century. was published a number of works, aimed at communicating that, that actually there's no such, what could be called mental phenomena or consciousness. It was fairly common (and still in our time) the interpretation of consciousness as a special form of reflection of reality. If consciousness is interpreted as a reflection, it is deprived of any ontological status, that is, it is assumed, she does not make in reality nothing new. Consciousness as a form of reflection of reality endowed with the capacity only to reproduce and precompensate existing forms of life. It should be recognized, for some science (biology, psychology) the theory of reflection was productive. 

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