Intelligence Within the Context of Mind and Consciousness: Dialectics of the First and the Third Person
https://doi.org/10.18384/2949-5148-2025-4-6-17
Abstract
Aim. A targeted analysis of the essence of intelligence in the context of its relation to such central mental phenomena as mind and consciousness.
Methodology. The key methods were the dialectical ones that helped to reflect the complex nature of human mental reality. Dialectics reveals the inconsistency and dynamism of the interpenetration of objective and subjective sides in the intelligence, emphasizes its discrepancy with consciousness in their close coexistence.
Results. Intelligence cannot be reduced to a neutral third-person phenomenon. It turns out to be an integral formation of a living psyche that unites thinking and other processes aimed at setting goals, overcoming problems, making decisions, and learning new.
Research implications. The research reveals complex interaction between intelligence and consciousness in the field of psychology. It asserts a substantial primacy of the first person in intelligence, its foundation in the activity of the self.
About the Author
A. I. Zhelnin
Perm State National Research University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Anton I. Zhelnin – Cand. Sci. (Philosophy), Assoc. Professor, Department of Philosophy
Perm
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