APOSTLE OF THE SCIENTIFIC TRUTH

The truth briefly reads:"the psychical is a process"

Andrej V. Brushlinsky

Under suffocating conditions of the Soviet totalitarian system in the 50th-60th-70th-80th A. Brushlinsky was consistently, stoicaly and tirelessly developing the approach to the psycical as a process. Strength of mind, which was supported with the surance that the scientific values are true - that was nacessary for it. And A.Brushlinsky showed them.

Let me send you to the origin - to the book of S. L. Rubinstein "The problems of general psychology", Moscow 1973, pages 304 -307, the chapter's title is "Formation of the existence in time and space".

I quote: "Such properties of time as unevenness of its flow, heterogenity, independence on the movent of matter (and space), are relevant (as well as the ideas of evenness, isotropity, absolutness of the spread scales); there is unevenness, different rhythms of the time flow (as well as the heterogenity, structurality, curvature of the space).

That is 1959 year's quotation.

The Rubinstein's demand to consider the interactionof the existance with the existance we can accept as a postulate. I quote now from the page 328. "Futher, human cognition and thinking itself must be considered as a component of human life, i. e. interaction of the existance with the existance. Every cognizing person must be considered as the person within the existance, which is being cognized, as a form of the existance."

The necessarity of the postulates is that one must have a general perspective plan of the considering of the psychical.

How should we consider it? As process in the time. Without it we are in the darkness.

If the object for us is the psychical as a process and our cognition is determined with the relationships in the subject, that we cognize, then we,ve got the demand to determine the main human dependences. The psychical is in the nature, if there is a man. A living person has a requirement to continue his living.

The next steps are to the structure of the requirements, to the movement of the requirement subject towards requirement, to the structure ofthe subjective time etc. Consistant movement in this direction opens wide and permising perspectives of considering the truth "the psycical is a process" (A. Brushlinsky)

September 1999

Alexei Pestov