Volume 57, 2018
Philosophy of Mind
Liudmila Pugacheva
Pages 105-110
The Individual’s Mind as a terra incognita and Resource of the Person in an Unsteady World
Internet Version of Development
In the situation of limited resources and social structures, the search for being-in-the-world stimulates the person to explore inner space of consciousness. Today the Internet acts as a means of exploring the inner space of consciousness via network communication. This is the new mental support of the person. Autopoietic attitude to the body limits the abilities of the consciousness for interaction. The Network gives the individual new information, quasi-material pivot existing outside the body and created with computer technologies. The Network is a terra incognita of the modern person’s consciousness and a tool of its development. Contacting other consciousnesses, the individual’s consciousness gets “an outsider’s viewpoint”, which is extremely necessary for forming contextual-judicious view of a task. It happens with forming “common sense”, the basis of mind, thus bringing back the value of the mind. The states of consciousness expressed at the level of “first-person ontology” due to “network consciousness” today easily move to the level of the entire society. If network society due to individuals’ efforts will be able to focus on the creative state of the consciousness that excludes violence and destruction, network consciousness will turn these states into a pivot of the modern person.