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(It is impossible to completely exclude the subject from classical theory even in the context of a model classical theory - Newton's Mechanics. It is impossible to define a physical reference system without such a category as "observer", even though this category does not belong to the paradigm of this theory. In this case the subject actually determines only the reference point for measurement of physical properties expressed, but it neither defines objects themselves, nor their interaction conditions (quantum mechanics is an exception where subject's perception changes interaction conditions). An attempt to introduce the "interacting" subject into classical theory inevitably brings it down to redefinition in terms of an object with additional formal characteristics that describe peculiarities of its "behavioral pattern" (behaviorism, classical cognitivism, cybernetics etc.)

(Sensations are being interpreted as a "marker" or identifier of subject-object interaction processes that are carried out through subject-world link channels. In this perspective they should be correlated to stimuli. Any sensations are qualitatively characterized in terms of classes, modalities and submodalities. In terms of quantity they could be characterized by their intensity within the limits of these qualities as well as persistence (flexibility, rigidity) that reflects temporal characteristics of quantitative transformation. For example, within exteroceptive sensations there can be the following differentiation into types of modalities: visual, auditory, olfactory, tactile, gustatory and so forth. Every modality can fall into separate components correlated with the world attributes. A stream of sensations is classified into immediately controllable (dependent) and mediately controllable (independent) types. We can assign a class of proprioceptive (bodily) sensations to the category of immediately controllable. A class of exteroceptive sensations would be attributed to the "external" immediately uncontrollable while interoceptive sensations would be classified as internal immediately uncontrollable.
Interoceptive sensations are inseparable from emotions. Emotions are an innate form of afferent signaling of the broken homeostasis that implicitly "point at" the outside means of satisfying a demand.
Proprioceptive sensations fall into subclasses to be interpreted as vestibular (the ones that orient in the stream of exteroceptive sensations), muscular (interpreted as force efforts) and articulate, which we correlate to location of body parts.
Relations between acts of volition and proprioceptive sensations generate a notion of feedback. An act of volition itself is not a sensation, and the only way to "sense" the presence of volition in a subject is to perceive the result of its realization (for instance, a bodily sensation). This gives the subject an opportunity to further correct his behavior by retroactive afference by means of proprioceptive and exteroceptive perceptibility. In fact, proprioceptive sensations are the markers of an act of volition. Relations between exteroceptive and proprioceptive sensations bring forth spatial relations. A mental form of matter existence as a process creates concepts of sequence and time.
An afferent form of creative "alienation" of subjective reality is accessible to the mind (is experienced as a process by the subject) in the stream of sensations and emotions. The subject of perception is essentially that very form that "experiences" a creative act as the alienation of the final (restricted) content matter, and perceives the alienated content in the shape of sensations. The act of volition itself takes place in the efferent form of creative "alienation", that act being correlated with the subject of volition. The basis for such a division is a mental separation of functions of information reception and information control, information being accessible to the subject's mind)

SEMANTIC ANALYSIS: METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS

The Principle of Objectivization of the Subjective Reality

While science postulates the existence of outside reality independent of the subject, its organization principles are also "external", coming from outside, in relation to the subject of perception and reality perceived. These principles are either explicitly or implicitly attributed to the outside "demiurge" in a materialistic or idealistic sense (as evolution or God). In any case, the principles of objectivization can not be an object to classical science, and they are just as external as the subject itself. Any classical science strives towards maximum "desubjectivization", i.e. exclusion of the subject in any form from its worldview..

Since the very principle of objectivization becomes an object of research, one can hardly exclude the subject from the world view. Within Semantic Analysis these principles should be treated as the ones already existing in the subject reality and correlated to the subject that carries them out in his concepts of that reality. It does not mean that we are going to be bounded within subjectivism, it is just that we are trying to determine objective structurization principles of any subjective reality. Unlike the classical paradigm that takes the ready-made structured object world as a source of objectivity, Semantic Analysis treats the principles of objectivization as a source of objectivity in a subjective world. The subject is the bearer of those principles.

Thus, the source of objectivity turns from the outside object reality that lies beyond our sensations, to "organization" principles of subjective reality.

Attempts of neoclassical science to include the creative subject (evolution) into its world view lead to contradiction with the very principle of scientific objectivity, as they mean involvement of a source that transforms both this principle and the matter of a scientific theory in to the theory itself. Formalization becomes impossible in this case, because the matter of such a "theory" will undergo constant transformation. Subject-involvement within the framework of formal logical description can only be mechanistic, where the subject is virtually reduced to the object (as a finite set of attitudes and stereotypes). Emergence of the creative subject in science immediately violates the principle of causation.

The evolutionary process within classical theory turns out to be separated from the subject as the only "form" of its realization. As far as the object world is determined, the evolution is "taken out" of the boundaries of the object (and subject) reality appearing to be the non-determined, uncontrolled Creator of this world. Evolution presented this way can not be an object of any analysis, being the source of absolute, unrestricted and unfathomable will in relation to the object and the subject itself. In this case, classical science that studies the object world can not research either the subject or evolution in principle.

To research development, the "living subject" should be made object of scientific studies, unlike the "dead" object. In this sense it should be primary in relation to objects. That is why the object world should be the result of development, which means, the result of objectivization of the subjective reality by the subject.

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