Alexander A. Gaidt

The Difficult Problem of Consciousness in the Dimension of Cultural-Historical Psychology

IZVESTIYA VUZOV SEVERO-KAVKAZSKII REGION SOCIAL SCIENCE June 30, 2026 Alexander A. Gaidt

The article examines the fundamental causes of the crisis in the contemporary philosophy of consciousness. The most important of these is the formulation of the difficult problem of consciousness as a question about the nature of subjective experience (qualia), which results in the reduction of consciousness to elementary sensations - visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, and gustatory. More...