The problem of consciousness in modern psychology is ambivalent. On the one hand, it is the highest form of development of complex matter within the framework of environmental adaptation; on the other hand, this is what we call reflection and apperception of higher nervous activity. Is it consciousness or not, because it is the creation by our body a consistent “picture of reality” for effective adaptation in an objective environment and independent of the number of reflecting receptors, the reflected areas of attention and perception, or the quality of the reflection memory in the recipient's representation, imagination and thinking. Consciousness is a set of mental processes that are actively involved in a person's understanding of the external material world and his own no less material existence. But consciousness is also goal–setting (the search for an objectified need in its ideal form), i.e. reflection in the psyche of the subject in sensory and mental images, apperception of the material in projects and schemes of activity, spiritual practices, personal and social values and ideals.
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Shabanov L.V. The highest form of reflection and the degree of clarity of reflection (discourse of subjectivity), Ivanovo State University Bulletin, Series: Humanities, 2023, no. 4, pp. 148—155.