Consciousness nature

Consciousness is a fundamental category ofphilosophy and science. Thousands of papers are devoted to researches of consciousness and its origin, however, it is hardly possible toassume that they are exhaustive, and consciousness, as well as consciousness derivatives, is thoroughly cognized, that the creative roleof consciousness in person's formation and development is revealed fully. Consciousness is a multinatural problem, reflecting the unityof natural and social issues. Scientists know much about the material brain component, brain "substance", but they still have no clearanswer to the question of the origin of consciousness. Philosophy made a rather essential contribution, but still has not answered thequestion of why consciousness is possible. The more we learn about consciousness and the subject, the human historical culture, thenatural person, the more drastic the area of concern becomes. The occupational concept, well-known in philosophy and science, confirmingthe initial role of labour in the origin of consciousness causes scepticism and mistrust in the researchers' community. With thechanges in the philosophic world outlook paradigm, alteration in scientific world outlook is likely to happen with new emphasis, newcontent and, thus, interpretation mostly conditioned by the person's inherent features, both natural and social, is inevitable. The originand the nature of consciousness still remains one of the greatest mysteries of the person. Reconsideration, revaluation, including newhypotheses of the origin of consciousness, is becoming a characteristic feature of our time. Practical demand for more profound understandingof interconnection of the social and the subject; of the role of consciousness in this process is finally defined by understandingthe nature of consciousness. In the article, the purpose of reference to consciousness is an attempt to interpret the nature of consciousnessas a specific human ability. Its importance for understanding of the person, the culture, relations with the world and with oneself isimpossible to overestimate. Understanding the nature of consciousness is a precondition that allows specifying the essence of its mediatingrole in the subject's interaction with the world and reality. In the context of the aforesaid, reference to the nature of consciousness isnot a random or idle inquiry. It is impossible to consider the extensionality of consciousness and subject nature without understandingthe nature of consciousness.

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