An idea of brain’s activity as reflective inherently puts forward. The monistic solution of the mind-body problem in line of Spinoza’s philosophy is proposed. A distinction between concepts of mind (psyche) and consciousness is described. The ideas about the possible physiological mechanisms of consciousness are expressed. The act of the general universal law of the development of complex systems of nature and society – from the whole to the parts, from the general to the particular, is described in the context of mental development.
The fundamental importance of Pavlov’s idea about the qualitative difference between the higher nervous activity in humans and animals due to the presence of human verbal signals that reflect reality substantiates. The evidence of supreme management role of the verbal system in mentality and behavior is considered. A psycho-physiological model of verbal-semantic control of sensory afferentation coming to the brain is proposed.
In chapters dedicated to specific mental processes, the actual data of their investigations are systematized. A new look at the nature of the processes of attention, thinking, imagination, will is offered.
The book is addressed to psychologists, researchers of the brain, philosophers, and all readers interested in the nature of mind and decision of mind-body problem.