PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS OF NEURON ACTIVITY OF THE ORGANISM IN THE CONTEXT OF THE PROBLEM OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE
https://doi.org/ 10.18384/2310-7227-2018-1-24-32
Abstract
The article provides a scientific analysis and explanation of the most important achievements in neuroethology and behavioural neurology concerning the analysis of neuron activity in the natural behaviour of living animals. This is a discussion of the possibility of step-by-step verification and of the heuristic potential of a philosophical approach to the analysis of the problems of consciousness. The author argues the need for a mediated analysis of the problems of consciousness, taking into account the rapidly growing amount of knowledge in this field. The question is raised of a scientific method of recording and signifying specific evolutionary processes. The author succeeded in revealing a mediated and multi-aspect interconnection between various kinds of human activity resulted from the specificity of human neuron nature, on the one hand, and causing human cultural phenomenologization, on the other hand.
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