ON THE TWO APPROACHES OF CONSCIOUSNESS RESEARCH IN MODERN SCIENCE
The two approaches of understanding the nature of consciousness and its altered states are considered in this article. The first one states that consciousness has local nature and the main objective of research is to find correlates between the phenomena of consciousness and the corresponding neuronal structures of brain. From the perspective of the second approach, the individual consciousness has non-local nature and is inseparably connected with the informational fields of the Universe, society and separate social groups, which generates “extended” consciousness states of high level (such as meditation, trans, and etc.).