Siberians' mental space content and structure

The article is focused on the analysis of the person's mental space content and structure based on the ideas of post-non-classical paradigm. Mental space is considered to be subordinate to the logic of the development of the person as an open self-organizing system. There are two main processes discussed in the article that influence the development of mental space, they are: person's orientation to the culture and the influence of the artefacts of culture on the person. The article presents the results of a comparative research of the variant and invariant components of the mental space of diverse culture representatives (Buryats, Jews and Russians). The economic roles, which were developed by Professor A.D. Karnyshev, are discussed as the research object. One of the study aims is to reveal the values and meanings as the significant components of the person's mental space structure. The results of the research show that there is connection between the variant component of the mental space structure and the intellectual efforts, and between the invariant component of the mental health structure and the emotions and logics that determine the choice of the specific type of economic behaviour.

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