Herein I explore creativity as a prime force in the evolution of consciousness, a fundamental motivating energy related to a need to maintain or regain spontaneity and freedom, and having rudimentary existence from the beginning of life. It has its own developmental progression, throughout life makes its demands on the mind, is subject to dissociation and repression, and can be defended against...

The paper analyzes how and under which assumptions it is possible to compare (in a relationist setting and relatively to qualities) entities living in different worlds. We begin with a standard technique to construct quality kinds via an abstraction process. In the first case, the process is applied across all the possible worlds and we show that the resulting quality system has problematic con...

The ubiquitous embedding of digital technologies in everyday environments and activities increases the complexity, variety and occurrence of human interactions with digital media. Furthermore, the advances in display technologies bring digital information and interaction possibilities on the very artifacts of our physical and social environments, such as tables and walls. For input and navigati...

This essay is a defence of the traditional notion of qualia – as properties of consciousness that are ineffable, intrinsic, private and immediately apprehensible – against the eliminative attempts of Daniel Dennett in the influential article “Quining Qualia.” It is suggested that a thorough exploration of the concept is an appropriate starting point for future explanations of qualia, and the es...

The relevance of the study is determined by hidden turbulence such concepts often used in Russian studies as “speech activity”, acts” and “discourse”. aim work to determine genetic connections this trinity functional purpose each categories under consideration. main research means authors’ method discursive-modus analysis artistic speech. materials were dictionary definitions from explanatory d...