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PLANT SOUL PRINCIPLE. P515. The Plant Soul Principle. Lecture 13. Sometimes involuntary movements are not only not inferior in the apparent nature of rationality to conscious movements
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PLANT SOUL PRINCIPLE
The basis of the content of the vegetative system of the psyche is its instincts and skills. Elementary instincts and elementary skills form complex programs for her life.
P515. The Plant Soul Principle
All functions of managing the vital activity of each organ are only and necessarily performed by the vegetative system of the psyche. To do this, she needs to perceive them. Its content (at the level of simple programs) consists of instincts and, to a small extent, skills. It is the fundamental principle of the psyche and is closely connected with all other mental organs. (3. 8. 7. ) 515
The influence of the Plant Soul on other systems of the psyche is absolute.
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The level of activity (tone) of the entire psyche necessarily depends on the level of activity of the autonomic system of the psyche. (3. 8. 7. ) 515 a
And the motivation for the activity of all other systems is mainly based on its internal motives (reasons). She is reliably protected from their influence.
2009-11-18
Lecture 13
Sometimes involuntary movements are not only not inferior in the apparent nature of rationality to conscious movements
(i. e., movements occurring in full consciousness),
but even surpass them in this respect
I. M. Sechenov
MOVING SOUL
• Activity of the Motive Soul
• Place of the Moving Soul
• Content of the Moving Soul
• Laws of instinct
• Laws of skill
• Egg or chicken?
• Natural analogue of the Moving Soul
• Artificial analogue of the Moving Soul
ACTIVITIES OF THE MOVING SOUL
The activity of the Motive Soul is determined by the complete set of its mental functions, a significant part of which is reduced to the direct operational controlof the involuntary movements of the body mus cles. If psychology believes that these are functions of the somatic nervous system, then philosophy knows for sure that these functions belong only to the Moving Soul. The Motive Soul is the somatic system of the psyche.
Direct control means that control actions are not mediated by the actions of another control system. The Motive Soul itself brings the final control decisions to each muscle and receives a response from it.
Operational management is real-time management. This should be done in relation to one muscle. And when do you need to control hundreds of muscles at the same time? What then? For example, to take just one step, you need to give instructions to almost 200 muscles and get an answer from them.
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1. The Motive Soul perceives all the motor organs and elements of its own body. Accordingly, only it exercises direct operational control over them. If the perception of the state of a certain motor element of the body necessarily includes its reception, then the feeling of this element is only the consciousness of its state.
Consciousness is a necessary and most significant part of the perception process. There is a principle of consciousness (67). And although this principle is formulated for a rational consciousness, a kind of (somatic) consciousness is also realized by the Moving Soul.
P516. The principle of somatic consciousness
Somatic consciousness is a stream of reactions of the recognizing programs of the somatic system of the psyche, in response to the received data of the control objects corresponding to these programs. (3. 9. 1. ) 516
This consciousness does not exist for the sake of curiosity of the Moving Soul, but out of necessity that, without knowing where the object of control is located, it is absolutely impossible to control it. Recall that data on the state of a controlled object is a feedback, and data of a control action is a direct connection.
Somatic awareness is called kinesthesia. “Humans are born with millions of sensory points that receive information about the position and movement of various organs in the body. They are located throughout the body - in muscles, tendons, joints - and constantly provide the brain with information. As soon as we turn the wrist just one degree, the touch buttons instantly tell the brain about it. This sensation of body position and movement of different parts of it is called kinesthesia. " (D. Myers " Psychology". Minsk, 1997. р. 147)
Psychology often confuses sensation with feeling, but here neither the first nor the second, since kinesthesia is somatic consciousness. Kinesthesia cannot be a sensation, since only receptors feel, and they only act for themselves, and thus they absolutely do not understand the real scheme of the body. Kinesthesia cannot be a feeling either. After all, the recognizing program feels, and here we are faced with a more complex phenomenon, in which there is a model of the real state of the whole body. This current scheme of the body is always and necessarily created only by the entire somatic system of the psyche.
No program is simply not capable of creating such a model.
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