Cognition or Designing of Reality?
The article poses the problem of the ontology of being. Various views on reality are considered, beginning with Bishop Berkeley’s interpretation, who maintained that “to be is to be perceived” (esse est percipi), up to N. Bohr and A. Einstein discussion about the independence or dependence of physical reality on the observer (perceiver), as well as attempts to solve this problem by modern quantum physics means. Following R. Penrose and J. von Neumann, it is asserted that the reduction of the wave function requires the observer’s consciousness participation, and the methodological problems of physics require the interaction with psychology in order to be solved. At their time, the physicist, Nobel laureate W. Pauli and the psychologist K. Jung have tried to correlate the quantum physics methodological principles and the theory of the collective unconscious. This article discusses the problems of consciousness and unconscious within the framework of psychosemantics methodology.