The special status of the theme of consciousness in modern science is caused by a
number of circumstances: considerable growth of scientific papers in the last quarter
of XX and the beginning of XXI centuries, transition of modern society from
the postindustrial phase to the informative, and also by the newest philosophy,
new scientific ideology, ideas of postmodernism, etc.; there appeared such new
integrated fields of knowledge as neuroscience, cognitive science, science of consciousness.
DOI:
10.11621/pir.2011.0001
Keywords:
modern psychology, consciousness, science, ideology.
