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Mentality Formation
Meanings of objects are defined in the second signal system by mentality as a whole, and not by a discrete individual. Since mentality describes significant subjectness components as combinations of subjective realities, the meanings of objects in object reality should be disclosed probabilistically, possible interpretations of the common elements of mental maps taken into account. Therefore, mentality describes possible sense interpretations of the common elements of mental maps. The concept of mentality (a habitual way of thinking) can be described as an indication to what kind of shared mentality the given object belongs. Modeling of shared mentality is carried out along the same principles of semantic space structuring as the construction of an individual mental map.
A variety of outside conditions acting as means of realization of the subject's need can acquire a greater rigidity. That is why additional instrumental means are required for their alteration. There appears a need (requirement) for mediated (for example, social) means of realizing conditions that would be prerequisites of direct (urgent) satisfaction of individual requirements. The tools for changing the rigid conditions can possess an even greater rigidity. Thus arises the demand for the formation of a social system external to the individual and individual means. Different social institutions are created to influence the development of social processes and perform the changes in the most rigid conditions of every individual's existence, which an individual is not capable of changing directly.
The subject's search for outside means possessing adequate rigidity for realization of the most rigid components of his requirements is inevitably leading to the formation of a social system and inclusion of the individual into this system of delegating the power (volition) functions. It is natural that all the elements of that system (social subject) should contain similar components and structure, and be located in the same field of requirement-motivation tension. The limits of this tension define the system boundaries that a subject alienates. It is obvious that an individual automatically becomes an "element" of a new "social subject".
Thus, alienating the subject of its requirement, the evolution "with his help" creates conditions essential for the next stage of evolution - producing a social subject. Since an act of creativity violates causation, the sense of early individual behavior components and their motives should be uncovered from the evolutionary perspective, which means taking into account the formation of social motives and requirements.
Qualities, their intensity and rigidity are defined for a mentality in the same way as for the individual's mental map. It should be noted that a mental map and mentality are closed systems, and they can justly be the subjects of scientific research.
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