The book is about living consciousness: private subjective experience, which conforms to the laws of magic. The concept of living consciousness is employed to clarify disputable concepts such as natural psychological functions and artificial intelligence, to explore how living consciousness is reflected in visual art and fiction writings, and to show how living consciousness could be influenced in education to promote creative thinking, memory and differentiating perception.
Part 1: Science in the Mirror of Living Consciousness.
Chapter 1:
Living Consciousness: Introduction.
Chapter 2: Natural Mental Functions as a
Source of Living Consciousness and Higher Mental Functions.
Chapter 3:
Artificial Intelligence in the Mirror of Living Consciousness.- Part 2: Art
in the Context of Living Consciousness.
Chapter 4: Modern Art as
Re-objectivation of Living Consciousness.
Chapter 5: Little Tragedies by
A.S. Pushkin as a Mirror of Living Consciousness.
Chapter 6: Phenomenology
of Living Consciousness in Stanislaw Lems Novel Solaris.- Part 3: Living
Consciousness and Phenomena of Life Reality.
Chapter 7: The Darker Side of
Living Consciousness.
Chapter 8: The Hawking radiation: Living
Consciousness in Education.
Chapter 9: Magical Phenomena as a Source of
Attraction and Activation of Living Consciousness.
Eugene Subbotsky is a Reader Emeritus in Developmental Psychology at the University of Lancaster, UK. He is known internationally for research on childrens moral development, the development of childrens metaphysical reasoning, and the development of consciousness and magical thinking over life span.
