Evolution Of Consciousness Research Articles

ЕВОЛЮЦІЙНИЙ АСПЕКТ ВИКОРИСТАННЯ ТЕХНОЛОГІЧНОГО СПОСОБУ ВИРОБНИЦТВА

The statement that the technological progress of civilization began only at the end of the 19th - the beginning of the 20th century is not quite true. Technologies have penetrated into all spheres of society in the modern world, radically changing our worldview, thinking and consciousness. This contributes to the emergence of new needs, which, in turn, necessitate the search for new ways to solve the Company with the necessary inventive material values. The reason contributes to the search for new technical means as a method for implementing an arising problem in this situation. It gradually changes the lifestyle and consciousness of individuals and becomes the reason for the search for new needs, which arise on their basis in the future. This relationship can be traced from the period of the formation of protomarketing relations, which arose in the Archaic Epoch of the Company's Development. Technological means of production were improved with a parallel evolution of human consciousness and needs as social and production relations were developed. This contributed to the emergence of public division of labor and the variety of financial relations that are inherent in modern economic systems. At this time, human needs are not limited to the diversity of commodity and material values that are available in the presence of modern civilization, and contribute to the search for new and new technical solutions. The latter are introduced into production and change the consciousness of people as they use, increasing the practicality and functionality of their application, contribute to the emergence of new ideas and new needs as a result. This causal process can last indefinitely, but with different intensity, which is determined by the degree of progress of human consciousness and factors, which determine its development at this stage. The transition between the stages of the public division of labor occurred is not hoping but smooth, as the evolution of human consciousness and needs. Therefore, the composition of the technological method of production is a continuous circuit of causal bonds, in which the cause becomes a consequence, and the consequence is the cause.

Socjologia wiedzy społeczeństwa cyfrowego – „praca cyfrowa” a ideologia mediów społecznościowych

The article presents the evolution of social media through the prism of the sociological theories of Joseph Schumpeter and Karl Mannheim. The methodology of the sociology of knowledge, which was described in the first part of the work, was used for the analysis. According to Mannheim and Schumpeter, innovation plays a key role in the evolution of human consciousness. Consciousness influences the shape of social existence – relations of production and division of labour. Innovation appears in history as a mental product, but it is used to reform the economic relations prevailing in a given period. The article combines the analysis of ideological content related to social media with the concept of creative destruction presented by Schumpeter. From an ideological perspective, we have seen a transformation from utopia to ideology in the history of social media. According to Mannheim’s historical dialectic scheme, utopian slogans, such as the demand for democracy, gratuity and fun, could not be realized under market conditions. They have become ideological postulates disguising the actual activities of media corporations. The economic innovation of ‘audience labour’ prevent them from being implemented. The theory of ‘digital labour’, which was formulated by Christian Fuchs, is based on the concept of ‘audience labour’: prosumers create data which is then ‘sold’ to advertisers. It is unpaid and voluntary work that is ‘monetized’ by targeted advertising. This new system determines, on the one hand, the success of such giants as Facebook, whose business model is based on advertisements, and, on the other hand, the destruction of more traditional types of the advertising, especially advertising in newspapers and magazines.

Историческое сознание и идеология на поворотных этапах российской истории

The evolution of the historical consciousness of Russian society over two centuries shows its potential to play a destructive or a saving role in dramatic moments of history, when out the prime value of the national statehood continuum is challenged by outer or inner attacks. The Russian intelligentsia's maximalist “reception” of Marxism resulted into total nihilism and a zeal to sacrifice the statehood for the sake of world revolution. However, having started in 1917 with a radical overthrow of Russian history, the authorities reincorporated it into the Soviet doctrine on the eve of the World War II, which resurrected national feeling and unity and enabled victory in the mortal fight. New ideological but equally nihilistic maxims once again prevailed and lead inter alia to the second collapse of the state in 1991. Historical consciousness of contemporary society, especially of young generations, is particularly prone to rapid changes and alternative extremes in the era of information technologies, which confirms the crucial importance of historical education to maintain spiritual sovereignty and national conscience as its core.

ОТРАЖЕНИЕ НРАВСТВЕННО-ЭТИЧЕСКИХ ПРОБЛЕМ В ПРОЗЕ Л. БОЗИЕВА

The article presents an attempt to analyze the moral and ethical problems of modern society in the prose of Lyudin Boziev. The writer performed mainly in the genre of lyrical prose, so his "I" plays a significant role in his work. It also draws attention to the autobiography of his works, in which he reflected the feelings and thoughts of his generation – the "children of war"; the movement of time and the complexity of human relationships. The authors of the article connect the moral search of L. Boziev with the national character, which is changing intensively in the era of globalization. The relevance of the research topic is determined by its innovative nature, associated with the analysis of the unexplored works of the Kabardian prose writer. The purpose of the study is to identify the specifics of the artistic solution of moral and ethical problems in modern Kabardian prose based on the material of L. Boziev's novels "The Arrogant becomes Mean" and "The Road of Life". It is achieved by solving a set of tasks, including: the definition of the national and ethical origins of the concept of "morality", the study of the problems and poetics of the novels of L. Boziev, establishing their connection with the Adyghe mentality, identifying the problem of morality and the specifics of its artistic solution. The research involves a number of general scientific methods (generalization, analysis, synthesis, description). The results obtained can become a theoretical aid in the further study of the work of L. Boziev, as well as in determining the role of a bright creative personality in the evolution of artistic consciousness.

ИЗМЕНЕНИЯ ПОЛИТИЧЕСКОГО СОЗНАНИЯ И ПОВЕДЕНИЯ РОССИЙСКИХ ЖЕНЩИН: ВЫЗОВЫ ЦИФРОВИЗАЦИИ

The relevance of studying changes in the political consciousness and behavior of women is associated with the trend of gender asymmetry in the structure of the population, persisting gender inequalities in the political sphere, and growing socio-cultural risks associated with the digitalization processes. The purpose of the article is to characterize the stages in the evolution of political consciousness and behavior of women in modern-day Russia and possible changes in the conditions of digitalization. The author identifies the evolution: stages: the crisis mobilization of political consciousness and women’s behavior (1987–1991); differentiation of political consciousness and behavior of women and readiness for decisive action (1992–1999); women’s electoral activity (2000–2007) and the stage of women’s political absenteeism and the search for a new identity (2008 – present). The digitalization of politics is associated with a significant change in the traditional practices of socio-political interaction, there is a rejection of its hierarchical structure, which is facilitated by the absolutization of the network connections built on impersonal algorithms of big data. That may contribute to increase the participation of women. Most notably, the development of electronic platforms for collecting the signatures and declarations as well as of social networks allow women to articulate their civic positions, build up their social capital, and realize group and socially significant interests

Знание как новая форма права

Introduction: the article draws attention to the fact that the subject of philosophical and legal discussion no longer includes issues of deep order. Questions of the influence of disciplines on each other remain out of sight. Among those is the question of the lesson that philosophy teaches to law in the modern era. The search for an answer to this question points to the changing attitude of philosophy towards the phenomenon of knowledge. The cognitive aspect of the problem is related to the new understanding of the real meaning of knowledge, its extensiveness. Today philosophy declares and justifies the thesis of knowledge as a new form of being. Purpose: by testing the philosophical hypothesis, to establish that knowledge has always taken place but as a form of being it was long in the shadow of consciousness. In the new reality, knowledge transformed into the dominant format. Methods: comparative and historical analysis. Results: the study confirmed both the validity of the philosophical approach to knowledge as a form of being and the claim of this phenomenon to the status of a new form of law. Knowledge exists in three key and inextricably interrelated hypostases: as an object of evolution of public consciousness; as a result of concrete historical development; as an object of everyday life, when legal knowledge about an incident is developed ‘here and now’ by participants in legal proceedings.

Глобально-эволюционный подход к сознанию в когнитивной науке

At the present stage of consciousness research, there is an extraordinary variety of models of consciousness proposed by science and philosophy. In this regard, the construction of a typology of consciousness concepts is appropriate, as well as the dialogue of philosophy and cognitive science in the research of consciousness. The article compares the main approaches to the phenomenon of consciousness in cognitive science: neurobiological (neural network), informational (quantum informational), and nonlinear dynamic. The authors propose to include a global evolutionary approach in this typology. The global evolutionary approach is close to a nonlinear dynamic view, but the understanding of consciousness is refined by the inclusion of control parameters that exerted impact to the sociocultural stage of universal evolution. Creativity has a special role to play in this approach. The classification is based on ideas about the real evolution of consciousness and its participation in the global evolutionary process. In such a context, consciousness is understood as a complex self-developing system, but its functioning is conditioned by the cognitive activity of the brain, body, culture, and the world. The article reveals the concepts, in which the explanation of consciousness can be correlated with the global evolutionary approach. They include the emerging modern concepts of embodied cognition, the theory of spatio-temporal neuroscience by G. Nortoff, as well as the concept of consciousness by T. Metzinger. The authors generate the hypothesis about the expediency of using the methodology of the second-order observer to discuss the problem of a unified theory of consciousness. The article indicates the correlation of these theories with the global evolutionary approach, in which the functioning of consciousness is not reduced to neural network structures of the brain, but extended to a view that consciousness is a part of the world and at the same time includes it. Thus, consciousness has a creative evolutionary potential, due to which it builds holistic images and encompasses irrational, creative parameters. The authors suggest a hypothesis about the possibility to combine first-person and third-person studies of consciousness based on the methodology of the second-order observer. In this assumption, they assess consciousness performing the function of an observer on the basis of the methodology of the second-order observer (V.I. Arshinov) and the interpretation of observation as an operation that reproduces the observer (D. Becker). The observer of complexity (the observer of the second order) in this context is consciousness, or rather self-consciousness. The observer simultaneously observes and generates processes, forming a kind of an “assemblage point” of reality, in which the agent-based properties of the observer of complexity are manifested.

Computer aspect of interdisciplinary research in philosophy of education and computer science

A large-scale global study of events both within and between disciplines provides strong evidence that leading thinkers have begun to introduce new ways of thinking to the point that most academic disciplines have undergone major paradigm changes throughout the twentieth century, according to Guidley. Increasingly, over the past forty years, we can see significant changes, if not in all, then in the main scientific disciplines. New ways of thinking have appeared in almost all disciplines. With the help of interdisciplinary approaches, a movement has emerged to integrate knowledge, moving beyond the fragmentation of knowledge related to disciplinary specialization. Computer technologies and computer concepts have penetrated almost all areas of academic research. These events can be considered as the implementation of new ways of thinking and new models of knowledge, respectively, and may be edges of the evolution of consciousness, in which computer technologies occupy a significant place. Education and communication in the age of globalization and computerization are an obvious necessity for the continued existence of society.

Балансирование ценностей и ценность балансирования (часть вторая)

The second part of the article is devoted to the analysis of two epistemological problems that are directly related to the balancing of values in judicial prac­tice – the nature of human rights and the relationship between law and non-le­gal normativity. According to the authors, the dispute between Habermas and Alexy over what is the authority of law in the area of human rights illustrates the conflict between Kantian legal philosophy and jurisprudence of interests, between the absolutism of deontological ethics and consequentialism. Balanc­ing legal values, using, among other things, the economic analysis of law, is one of the ways of the conscious evolution of law, its synchronization with the flow of life of society. Another problem is related to the conflict between the natural boundaries of law as a scientific and practical field of knowledge, and the regu­latory function of law, which presupposes a timely and adequate response of the law to external events and challenges. The authors turn to Luhmann’s dis­tinction between the normative closeness of law and its cognitive openness and come to the conclusion that there is both direct and indirect communication be­tween law and other normative systems (such as ethics and economics). Law assimilates and transforms ideas and values ​​of other areas of knowledge, but it shares with them the same context, which allows us to speak of the common cognitive structures

Updates in Luxury Purchase Motivation in East Asia: China, Japan & South Korea

Japan and South Korea have always had an important influence in the East Asian luxury goods market. In recent years, Chinese consumers have also arisen extensive attention from luxury brands and consumer markets in various countries. Although the three countries have the common Confucian and Zen culture which brought a certain degree of commonalities, such as collectivism and aesthetic preferences, at the same time, they have developed their own national characters, such as China's "benevolence", Japan's "loyalty" and South Korea's "righteousness"—accompanying the evolution of aesthetic consciousness in the thousands of years' history, all of these impact profoundly on today's consumer motivation. However, the international and national economy, politics, society and communication gradually evolved different consumption motivations. "Luxury" has undergone tremendous changes among consumers in the three countries. A total of 405 respondents (of which 325 respondents answered all questions) in the three countries received our questionnaire. The questionnaire contained two parts: basic information and consumption motivation, based on the impression of the word "luxury" and the 36 questions which divided into five levels (Strongly Agree, Agree,Neutral, Disagree, Strongly Disagree). Impression keywords helped us to understand the changes in consumers' attitudes towards "luxury". Besides, we analyzed 36 consumer motivations and behaviour issues through relative importance index (RII) analysis and classified and grouped these factors to determine the importance of motivation ranking. The results show that Chinese consumers are more concerned about the practical value of luxury goods, such as quality and price. Japanese consumers regard craftsmanship and quality as the most important consumption motives, while pleasure and quality are factors that Korean consumers value more. Through the analysis of the results, combining with the uncertainty caused by the Covid-19 epidemic this year, we could see that luxury brands not only need to strengthen customer relationship management, but also consumer segmentation, behaviour and sentiment analysis, as well as the predictive analysis in order to provide customers with personalized, high-quality services. At the same time, as ethics and sustainable values become more and more important in consumer awareness, and even affect their purchasing decisions, they hope that the brands they buy can reflect their own value. Therefore, how to use science and technology to enhance transparency and authenticity will also be the new focus of luxury brands.

Иранская интеллигенция, национализм и нацистская Германия

The article analyzes the situation in Iran before and during the Second World War, when the warring parties represented by England, Germany and the USSR tried to bring the Iranian intelligentsia to their side. The author shows that on the eve of the war, German propagandists achieved the greatest success in this field. The main issues that could become the basis for the rapprochement of Nazi Germany and the Shah’s Iran are shown: the propaganda of the «Aryan brotherhood» and the positioning of the Third Reich as a defender of Muslims. The channels of influence of Nazism on the Iranian intelligentsia are revealed. The main scientific result: the evolution of the national consciousness of the Iranian intelligentsia is shown, and the main reasons for the final collapse of the German ideological expansion into Iran are determined.

Preparing managers for a reconfigured world: management education's new gig

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to draw attention to the lack of a clear theoretical framework in management education programs to allow students to understand the world in which gig workers operate. The article asserts the need for practical guidance for pedagogy to prepare students to manage in the gig economy.Design/methodology/approachThis paper provides a rationale for the assertion that, beyond training students to create their own work configurations in the new world of work, management education should acquaint students with the specific challenges faced by managers responsible for a spectrum of workers in various work configurations. This paper explicates gig work configurations and offers theoretical and practical issues related to worker and manager identity to be considered in the development of an educational framework.FindingsManagement curricula over time have successfully augmented several competencies to the manager identity. Bolstering the competency of simultaneously managing employees working in multiple employment arrangements is the next natural progression of management education.Practical implicationsParticular challenges for prospective “gig managers” may relate to the management of somewhat elusive processes that enhance their own and their workers' organizational identity and related outcomes.Originality/valueThe authors invoke the literature of holding environments for identity development, along with the distinctness and inclusion facets of Kegan's theory of the evolution of consciousness and tenets of institutional theory, in a call for the examination of methods that may help aspirant managers recognize distinction and inclusion needs in others and cultivate tools to assist in their workers' need fulfillment.

W poszukiwaniu tradycji historycznej. Studium na temat białoruskich refleksji nad dziedzictwem I Rzeczypospolitej

In the article is discussed Belarusian historical tradition in relation to the policy of memory. Special attention was paid to her reflections on the heritage of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the context of the phenomenon of belarusization. The text of the article consists of two parts. In the first of them, the author describes the history of Belarusian historical thought in connection with the process of evolution of the Belarusian national consciousness and the historical policy of the Belarusian elite. In the second part, the main trends of this thought were highlighted and described in connection with their attitude to the problem of belarusization of the Commonwealth’s heritage. The article points out that in Belarus, after independence, the next stage of an extremely complex process of forming national consciousness began, an integral element of which is the construction of historical discourse by government’s agencies.

Evolving Consciousness: Insights From Turing, and the Shaping of Experience.

A number of conceptual difficulties arise when considering the evolutionary origin of consciousness from the pre-conscious condition. There are parallels here with biological pattern formation, where, according to Alan Turing’s original formulation of the problem, the statistical properties of molecular-level processes serve as a source of incipient pattern. By analogy, the evolution of consciousness can be thought of as depending in part on a competition between alternative variants in the microstructure of synaptic networks and/or the activity patterns they generate, some of which then serve as neural correlates of consciousness (NCCs). Assuming that NCCs perform this function only if reliably ordered in a particular and precise way, Turing’s formulation provides a useful conceptual framework for thinking about how this is achieved developmentally, and how changes in neural structure might correlate with change at the level of conscious experience. The analysis is largely silent concerning the nature and ultimate source of conscious experience, but shows that achieving sentience is sufficient to begin the process by which evolution elaborates and shapes that first experience. By implication, much of what evolved consciousness achieves in adaptive terms can in principle be investigated irrespective of whether or not the ultimate source of real-time experience is known or understood. This includes the important issue of how precisely NCCs must be structured to ensure that each evokes a particular experience as opposed to any other. Some terminological issues are clarified, including that of “noise,” which here refers to the statistical variations in neural structure that arise during development, not to sensory noise as experienced in real time.

Consciousness reduced: The role of the 'idiot' in early evolutionary psychology.

A conception of the idiotic mind was used to substantiate late 19th-century theories of mental evolution. A new school of animal/comparative psychologists attempted from the 1870s to demonstrate that evolution was a mental as well as a physical process. This intellectual enterprise necessitated the closure, or narrowing, of the ‘consciousness gap’ between human and animal species. A concept of a quasi-non-conscious human mind, set against conscious intention and ability in higher animals, provided an explanatory framework for the human–animal continuum and the evolution of consciousness. The article addresses a significant lacuna in the historiographies of intellectual disability, animal science, and evolutionary psychology, where the application of a conception of human idiocy to advance theories of consciousness evolution has not hitherto been explored. These ideas retain contemporary resonance in ethology and cognitive psychology, and in the theory of ‘speciesism’, outlined by Peter Singer in Animal Liberation (1975), which claims that equal consideration of interests is not arbitrarily restricted to members of the human species, and advocates euthanasia of intellectually disabled human infants. Speciesism remains at the core of animal rights activism today. The article also explores the influence of the idea of the semi-evolved idiot mind in late-Victorian anthropology and neuroscience. These ideas operated in a separate intellectual sphere to eugenic thought. They were (and remain) deeply influential, and were at the heart of the idea of the moral idiot or imbecile, targeted in the 1913 Mental Deficiency Act, as well as in 20th-century animal and human consciousness theory.

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness: A Political Issue

The paper involves an attempt to focus on the question of how sustainable development became a political issue. The path to discuss the ideology and its growth as a political concern leads to an emphasis over its origin. First, an attempt to trace the ecological sentiments back to the dawn of the Neolithic or Paleolithic times where people respected nature and had a more caring and responsive view and how and how they establish harmonious practices for resource management. Second, the emphasis on some of the most dangerous and threatening exercises by the biologists through their books. Thirdly, is the phase of the late 20th century when intense use of land, industrialization, over population etc. became a source of origin for ecological consciousness. The individual and international conditions and impacts in the 20th century are supported by some examples. Industrialization and capitalism was a main cause for the evolution of ecological consciousness as it focused on profit generation and consumerism gradually over populating the humans and eventually becoming threat to their well being. Further an attempt is made to trace the conditions in India and the relation between poverty and ecological degradation is explained and simplified. Later the question about the comprehension of ecological damages with the decreasing availability of natural resources is been dealt with help of some examplesThe desire is to answer the question of how the idea of sustainable development and ecological consciousness became political that is how this issue being social, economic and scientific turned out to be a political issue or how the people became politically active and felt the need for their deliberate action over the concernThe dilemma of limited natural resources and their exploitation due to unending human aspirations for growth and development has also raised the question whether the natural capital stock which includes environment and other natural resources will be affected by these human aspirations.Therefore the paper is to make people aware about how certain evolution of ecological consciousness has been emerging to be a political issue by referring to the origin, evolution and related social complications.

Mark Vernon, A Secret History of Christianity: Jesus, the Last Inkling, and the Evolution of Consciousness

Mark Vernon, <i>A Secret History of Christianity: Jesus, the Last Inkling, and the Evolution of Consciousness</i>

Александр Грибоедов: вечный диспут о человеческом достоинстве

Статья посвящена формам и способам осмысления идей А.С.Грибоедова, заложенных в его пьесе Горе от ума , на разных этапах истории российской культуры. Автором использован метод ретроспекции, материалами послужили публикации в региональной советской печати второй половины XX в., а также авторские описания библиотечной выставки и ее экспонатов. Отправной пункт исследования выставка редких изданий из фонда Краснодарской краевой универсальной научной библиотеки имени А.С.Пушкина, организованная к 225-летию Грибоедова. Затем автор обращается к театральным интерпретациям великой комедии в первой половине XX в. Введен в научный оборот и проанализирован материал о постановке пьесы на сцене Краснодарского драматического театра имени М. Горького (1937). Образы главных героев были изображены в духе очевидной политической наглядности и классового противостояния. Провинциальный театр стремился приспособить традиции и метод русского критического реализма XIX в. к ситуации 1930-х гг.The article is devoted to the forms and ways of understanding the ideas of Alexander Griboedov (17951829), embedded in his play Woe from Wit, at different stages of the history of Russian culture. The aim of the study was to trace the evolution of the critical consciousness, the scientific and artistic development of issues related to Griboedovs work by means of exhibition activities, literary and textual research, and theatrical interpretations using separate examples. The author used the retrospection method, which allows one to track the evolution of a phenomenon from its observed form through various stages of formation in a chronologically opposite direction. The research materials were the works of literary critics and theater experts, publications in the regional Soviet press of the second half of the 20th century, as well as the authors descriptions of the library exhibition and its exhibits. The starting point of the study was the exhibition of rare publications from the fund of the Krasnodar Regional Universal Scientific Library named after A.S. Pushkin, which was organized on the occasion of Griboedovs 225th anniversary. Rare copies of books dedicated to Griboedov, in their entirety, help to understand the problem of the authenticity of the text of the play, which was not immediately brought to the canonical form and existed in different editions. Further, the author of the article turns to theatrical interpretations of Griboedovs comedy in the first half of the 20th century when, in parallel, philologists established its final text. Despite the different skill levels of the capital and peripheral troupes, they understood Griboedovs creative plan in the same ideological and aesthetic spirit. In the second half of the 1930s, the play was extremely popular its stage production took place in at least seventeen provincial theaters of the RSFSR and Ukraine. Provincial performances blended the semantic and stylistic trends set by the leaders of the theatrical process. The conclusion is made about the close connections of philological science and theatrical practice in the interpretation of the play. The author first introduced into scientific discourse and analyzed the material on the production of the play on the stage of the Krasnodar Drama Theater named after M. Gorky in 1937. The author emphasizes that the images of the main characters were depicted in the spirit of obvious political visibility and class opposition. The provincial theater sought to adapt the traditions and method of Russian critical realism of the 19th century to the situation of the 1930s.

The Romantic Modernism of Owen Barfield's History in English Words

Owen Barfield's History in English Words is a part of his ongoing efforts during the 1920s to establish literary criticism as a coherent, rigorous discipline. It owes a great deal to Logan Pearsall Smith's writings but is unique in arguing that the history of language provides compelling evidence for an evolution of consciousness. History in English Words characterizes the scope and span of this evolution in a way that acknowledges its Romantic roots even as it offers solutions to social and philosophical problems that afflict modern humanity.

The Evolution of a World Consciousness in Traditional Chinese Historiography

ABSTRACT This article discusses the changing perceptions of the world in traditional Chinese historiography. Since Sima Qian's Records of the Historian of the second century BCE, China has formed a worldview of “the central empire as the principal, the peripheries as subordinates”. In the following two millenia years, three occurred three opportunities for altering the worldview. But all of them failed to materialize. It was not until the mid-nineteenth century and due to the Western challenge, that this worldview became fundamentally undermined. This change gave rise to a new worldview that entered textbook writing and became widely accepted from then on.