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Chailakhyan’s views of the origin of consciousness and mentality

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L.M. Chailakhyan’s views of sources of the origin of consciousness and mentality have been analyzed. It is supposed that the information interaction alone is not sufficient for the occurrence of consciousness. Something else is necessary that distinguishes a live system from lifeless and can be transmitted to the progeny and evolve. It is assumed that this something is an “information-physical interaction,” namely, an energy profile of conformational reorganizations of proteins during their interaction. Chailakhyan proves the point of view that this profile during the interaction of proteins cannot be calculated and therefore cannot be cognized. This conclusion is supported by Gödel’s incompleteness theorem.

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  1. Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 117865, Russia

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Original Russian Text © A.S. Bazyan, 2010, published in Biofizika, 2010, Vol. 55, No. 3, pp. 557–562.

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Bazyan, A.S. Chailakhyan’s views of the origin of consciousness and mentality. BIOPHYSICS 55, 508–512 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0006350910030280

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