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Intellect as a Tool for Mental Map Construction
Realizing its principles (in a constrained way, as a necessity, need or requirement), the evolution produces at the same time outside reality as a result of a creative act (act of volition) aimed at realizing both those principles and the subject of that reality or a subject of requirement. That kind of reality is experienced by the subject in the following ways: as a certain objective (caused by evolution) conditions (exteroceptively), and in the shape of emotions as "experiencing" the need of the evolutionary subject, issuing from these conditions (interoceptively). The intellect "designates" objective conditions for need actualization, then associates them with objects in the object reality and presents the subject's instrument assisting him to cognize the sense of that reality "for himself". In the end, evolution rubs out of all forms for its content in space-time, and establishes relations between sets of various forms of the subject reality as extero-, proprio- and interoceptive components of subject realities admissible. Basically, the subject of evolution determines a new system specifying his requirement under different conditions of a specific subjectness as a term necessary for the next evolutionary stage.
The subject can be specified in the context of the admissible (or possible) reference frames or existence conditions (physical, temporal, genetic, norms, reactions, social, economic etc.). A number of admissible reference frames limits modification scripts of his mental map. The succession of these "frames of reference" in the past and future determines his possible lifelines. The intellect interprets mental maps that belong "to this line" as a modification of one mental map of the unchangeable, self-identical specific subject. Alterations in his mental map are interpreted by the subject as adaptation to the change in the outside conditions of the object world. Then the subject also correlates these changes with his development.
The intellect performs the function of conventional cognitive alienation and correlation of the "inner alienated" (needs) with the "outer alienated" (means of their realization); later exercising an act of cognitive appropriation as part of the process of requirement satisfaction. In this sense intellect is one of the subject's adaptation mechanisms within the limits of a specific subjective reality.
Under definite conditions interoceptive sensations produce an emotional state (factor) that we tend to interpret as "the inside object" – a requirement that is to be correlated with "the outside factor", that is the object presented to the subject through exteroceptive perception. The need of the evolutionary subject is intellectually interpreted in the context of a specific subjective reality as a subjective form of experiencing a deficit under some life conditions. It could be experienced only in this limited specific form. Emotional states caused by the need in different subject reality conditions are associated with the subject's states in the object reality.
Every reference system specifies the evolutionary requirement and unambiguously defines a "zero point" (a balance point) as well as implicitly prescribes the terms of need compensation and the criteria for the search activity of the corresponding object as a means of satisfying his need. The perception subject and the action subject carry out the task of sustaining the homeostasis in subjective reality.
The mental as determined by the intellectual thought is mechanistic ("bounded") and intended for establishing identity in all forms with a certain content as well as designation of this identity. Any definition is basically a boundary. The mind does not only limit the subject, but reduces him to the object. The mind is mechanistic, because it unwinds the content without generating it. Creativity therefore appears as the subject's attribute and the mind - as an external objectivization tool.
Revealing the matter of a creative act on the mental map of the perception subject, the intellect can associate it with evolution and find its "reason" (and sense) by constructing a "mental map" of the evolutionary subject. Although creativity itself can not be completely fathomed, the causes and conditions of every creative act can be discovered.
So, "individual mentality" has its beginning and determined by a certain creative act that brings about a concrete reference system in the subject reality. Rational thought/intellect itself sets boundaries to the mind as its own limits and, therefore, it considers itself the cause of these bounds, and, as a result, the cause of consciousness. This creates and illusion that consciousness is the function of thought. Consequently, the mental map is a map of the consciousness built by the intellect within specific bounds of subjective reality.
The reason defines itself through objective (logical principles of subject reality structuring, and it is an external instrument of mental map construction, in relation to the subject). Intellect signifies objective sides of sensations and experiences accessible to the bounded consciousness. There the objective components are alienated as "outside objects" of the object reality, which is a source of these sensations. The objective component of emotional experiences is correlated in the mind with the needs of the subject himself.
The intellect tracks final changes in the emotional sphere as violation of "the inner homeostasis" and associates them with the outside conditions as tools for need realization or compensation of the violated homeostasis. Thus, intellect defines new objects on the mental map.
The definition of intellect in classical science is in a way paradoxical, since the objective component of subjective reality must be "objectivized" as an object of object reality ("external" for the subject). However, similarly to the requirement, it is considered an inseparable inner instrument of the subject. Besides that, intellectual acts are not experienced proprioceptively, and that is why they are detached from physical/bodily actions while their result is not reflected in object reality. Yet it finds its reflection on the mental map that, in terms of classical science, is considered to be an effect of this object reality. In Semantic Analysis, an intellectual act defines an object on the mental map, and then alienates it into object reality. This way a gap between consciousness and objective reality is sealed.
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