Consciousness as a Factor Forming Society
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The article is devoted to consideration of the properties of consciousness and its influence on social processes. The complexity of researching consciousness as such is pointed out, since it is a kind of screen on which only external things, phenomena, processes are displayed. This screen does not reflect itself even in the case of reflection. The importance of consciously setting predetermined goals of human activity and the need for the unity of people in achieving such goals is considered. It is pointed out the complexity and inconsistency in achieving the goals set by people, in particular, the limitations of the functions of consciousness to predict and plan the consequences of human activity. The question arises as to how the predetermined goal is realized, why what exists in consciousness finds a counterpart in external reality. It is assumed that it already exists in external reality, but not as a reality, but as a possibility. The function of consciousness is to find ways to this desired possibility, to turn it into world is a collection of many possibilities, between which there are ways of transitions and each of which can reach the level of reality. It is pointed out the need for strict control by the subject of a predetermined goal (fiction), the complexity and contradiction of this control, its opposite to freedom of thought and expression. The partial justice and at the same time the limitations and contradictions of the materialistic vision of the influence of consciousness on social processes are shown. It is about the primitivization of the manifestation and the mythologizing of theoretical ideas when they dominate the consciousness of many people. The fragmentation of consciousness and its manifestations are considered. Consciousness is considered as the existence of which we can speak only by its influence on the human body, and the question is raised about how the ideal acts on the material, how thought moves the body. Consciousness shapes society through creativity. Fiction is the basis of real actions and historical processes. Including regarding the organization
Source: Spatial development
Authors: Vasil Havronenko, Ganna Taran, Anatoliy Petrov
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4404700535