Myth as a manifestation of the functional asymmetry of the human

Abstract

The subject of the article is the problem of the functioning of myth in the context of a dialectically constructed functional asymmetry of culture, language and thinking, where myth and science actively interact complementing each other. The purpose of the article is to consider the causes, nature and mechanism of this interaction, to identify the features of its manifestation and to show its positive sides. As a methodological support for the research, approaches and principles of non-classical science were used, allowing to move away from the classical attitudes of mythology and look at it more broadly, considering the myth not as a legend about gods and heroes, but as a cultural universal and a property of consciousness. The main conclusions of the article are reduced to understanding the importance of the perception of myth in the mode of non-classical mythology developed in the twentieth century, where myth is understood as a semantic matrix of culture responsible for the formation of a field of value meanings. This makes it possible to better understand the role of myth and myth-making in the structure of culture and consciousness, as well as to consider the epistemological resource of myth in scientific creativity, which is clearly underestimated in science, creating a complex system of cognitive dependencies resembling the interaction of the left and right hemispheres of the brain, which form the necessary variety of functional capabilities of human intelligence, working on the principle of mutual complementarity.