IS PSYCHOLOGY ALREADY CONCEPTUALLY COMPLETED, OR ABOUT INFORMATIONAL ACTIVITY OF THE BRAIN WHICH IS “OBSESSIVELY” ACCOMPANIED BY MENTAL ACTIVITY

Abstract

The article considers a “paradoxical” situation of general scientific significance, which can be formulated in the question “Why does the human brain, being a physical entity, nevertheless process information biologically or socially expediently?”, although no physical law supports this. A way out of this situation is offered. It consists in indicating that the limbic region of the brain realizes the ability of a person to subjectively evaluate the biological (social) value of external objects and phenomena. Such an explanatory concept, which is, in fact, a “product” of both humanitarian and natural knowledge, allows, in our opinion, to “cross” the line of conceptual and categorical misunderstanding between these “irreconcilable” branches of knowledge. And this intersection is carried out through understanding the essence of the information activity of the brain, which occurs with the help of mental phenomena.
 It is argued that in the neural networks of the brain, along with the usual physical causality, there is an informational causality that orchestrates this physical causality. But it acts due to the presence in the brain, again, of mental phenomena. And above all, the ability of a person to subjectively evaluate (either positively or negatively) the surrounding world, and therefore, to be motivated to eliminate states of uncertainty through the process of information integration (unification, summation, accumulation), which in the language of psychology is mainly a thinking process.
 The leading role of psychology in solving this general scientific problem is considered – primarily because of the scale of its research object, which is the psyche. Psyche, which, it is believed, is an evolutionarily mature “tool” of direct human existence and adaptation to constantly changing world – to uncertainty, to information deficit.