What and how provides the dissatisfaction of self-consciousness of a person?

Essay

Abstract

It is difficult to dispute the assertion that satisfaction disposes a person to relaxation and serenity, that is, inactivity. Therefore, there must be something that contributes to his activity, and it cannot but be the opposite to satisfaction, namely: dissatisfaction. What it really is, where it comes from and where it leads in the end, is noted below.

Key words: consciousness, dissatisfaction, reality, information, active, passive, person.

I
If we recognize that information is at the heart of all that exists, then we have to pay attention to the fact that information itself does not exist, manifesting itself only when it is perceived.
However, the problem immediately arises, which is that all objects of the material world, except for living beings, are indifferent to information. In other words, they are capable of reacting to certain influences, like a photographic film to light, but they cannot interpret these changes (analyze, structure) in any way, turning them into something understandable for themselves, which can be used in one way or another, that is, into information.
Therefore, all objects that can only carry information without knowing about it, to those objects that are able to perceive and use this information, can be designated as the passive, and the latter - the active.
Hence it follows that information can be defined as data about the state of material objects, which are somehow perceived and recognized for subsequent use.
Only living beings are capable of this kind of decoding and use of information, that is, not objects, but subjects of reality, who have the means to extract information, that is, those data that they understand, from own surrounding.
And in order to understand whether you need some data or not, you need to have at least some consideration, that is, to separate the necessary from the unnecessary, at least for own retention in the existing environment.
In other words, information arises only in consciousness, more precisely, through the carrier of consciousness by means of the senses and the center or centers of data processing, as well as form-building abilities, but not otherwise, being recognized in one way or another by a living being by a material copy of an object or objects accessible through sensations to consciousness, that is, available for their subsequent transforming into a specific environment around of a living being.
Information cannot be qualified as something immaterial and independent, since it is copies of data about objects from the vast environment, surrounding consciousness, selected and deciphered by consciousness by corresponding means.
Consciousness these decrypted copies of material objects through the corresponding center (centers) are also processing into images, meanings, feelings. They are also completely material components of consciousness, entailing subsequent actions of the carrier of consciousness. On their basis, together with memory, the carrier of consciousness interacts with the surrounding objects every moment of his "present".
Thus, all interactions of the being having consciousness are carried out in this end-to-end, irreversible process only on condition of arrival in his consciousness of the appropriate portions of information, each of which is processed, being laid down in a certain duration, making a row of sequential moments from the birth to death of the carrier of consciousness.
And if all objects, except for living ones, are passive fixers of data from the environment, interaction with which for them is reduced to responding to it by changing their own properties up to decay and emergence in a new quality, however, not chaotically, but according to some rules in current reality, which are being established by scientists, that is, if these inanimate objects do not show any initiative (activity) of their own, then living objects are able, thanks to the appropriate processing of incoming data , to figure out, how the information received can be used, making certain changes into own surrounding for own benefit and changing accordingly their behavior.
Naturally, living beings first of all want to stay in the information flow that they are able to perceive and comprehend - each at the level of own consciousness, - distinguishing themselves from things, which are not understanding anything by the fact that they use them for own benefit and preservation, competing in this with other living beings.
Therefore, all living beings are active, that is, they use the environment at the instinctive-reflex level of consciousness to maintain themselves in action (nutrition and metabolism), trying to push competitors away from food (domination), including copying themselves in one way or another (reproduction) for further spread in time and space.
Thus, the finiteness of their own existence, which they, except for humans, do not understand, but feel due to the deterioration in the functioning of certain parts of the body, living beings overcome by procreation (transfer of their own genome) by all possible ways, which requires a special growth program and development of both individual and general (generic).
In order to hold oneself in the information flow, which creates for a living being a sense of presence through his senses in the current reality, which is constantly changing, each living being has to fight with similar creatures for a place and food.
Any stop or delay in this struggle for life (sensations) in a changing environment means death, that means disappearance of sensations, which no creature wants to lose.
Therefore, each living creature is forced, in order to avoid stagnation, and hence death, to replenish its own database with new information, not being satisfied with the one has.
Hence, it is clear that the basic property of the activity of any living being consists in the dissatisfaction of its consciousness with oneself and the surrounding, transforming into aspiration for a better position, or at least for keeping what this creature has.
In other words, without dissatisfaction it is impossible not only to develop oneself and consume thereby more pleasant and more varied sensations, but also to survive.
Consciousness in every living being realizes itself through the sense organs and data processing centers (intellect), coming from the available sensory organs, as well as it realizes itself through a program on a protein carrier in each cell of the body (genome), which partly manifests the form-building abilities of the creature on basic on the organs of sensations and the available intellect.
Thus, the consumption of information flows is limited primarily by the available sense organs and their capabilities.
However, the aspiration to change own situation for the better, that is, in addition to just survival, - to more pleasant sensations, in particular, and through reproduction, and not only by increasing comfort and improving nutrition, is boundless, and always manifests itself, and a natural obstacle to this aspiration is the competition of other organisms with similar aspirations.
As a result, a fairly stable environment of living beings is formed with various niches that make up a certain hierarchy, which, it is true, is continuously updated, but structurally preserved.
By doing so, the inescapable striving of each creature in its activity for a better position in own competitive niche of existence can be defined by the term "dissatisfaction", the external expression of which is quite multifaceted, since the activity of a living being cannot be satisfied only with survival and reproduction - it always strives for greater satiety and a variety of food, more pleasant external conditions (warmer, safer, more organized).
In other words, the state of dissatisfaction of consciousness with oneself in a living being, which is transformed into the development of methods for its own change by influencing existing beingness, taking into account its counteraction, provides any living being with one or another degree of liberty as the realization of its aspirations for the better, expressed in changing its surrounding in accordance with emerging requests and available means.
That is, the dissatisfaction of consciousness always requires a greater degree of liberty, which gives it more opportunities to receive the most pleasant and varied sensations.
Let's see what means can be used by the dissatisfaction of a creature's consciousness to improve its own existence, taking into account that the framework of this improvement is limited only by survival, nutrition, reproduction, comfort, and also by the fact that contributes pushing rivals away from all this (domination).
For example, if we turn to such not quite primitive creatures like animals, then these means that their dissatisfaction can use can be quite diverse.
Some of given means, directly contributing to survival and domination, cannot be eliminated from consciousness - this is egocentricity, aggressiveness, the aspiration to destroy an opponent, to seize his territory. At this, for greater efficiency these means are combined in many cases with the cooperation of living beings. for example, in the form of colonies or flocks.
Here liberty is won by suppressing rivals.
However, as we know, everything is not so unambiguous in nature. For example, sharks cooperate with fish-clingers, and even ants do not destroy, but use aphids for additional nutrition.
In addition, a living being can improve his existence by looking for a prospect for a more profitable, and therefore pleasant existence in a more or less distant future.
Therefore, dissatisfaction can try to realize itself through the information processing center (the brain in mammals), which in sufficiently developed animals is capable of forming virtual images of certain objects, sorting and retrieving them on the basis of events that have already passed and stored in memory, thanks to which these animals, for example, are capable of anticipate danger and can avoid it.
In particular, wild livestock gathers in a herd, reducing the threat of predators' attacks to a minimum, female birds at a certain time begin to build nests, people prepare for the onset of cold weather, assessing their own possibilities for keeping warm in their homes, etc.
In this view of a more or less distant future, the dissatisfaction of every sufficiently developed being is already able, through the intellect of its own carrier, to materialize information mentally-figuratively for an imaginary exit from the present into the future, using for this the reserves of his own memory, as a result of which its chances of avoiding stagnation or death are significantly increased.
Thus, the main role in the informational contour of the representation of the future in sufficiently developed beings can be played by imagination, which manifests itself not as a "dense" reality (being), but as a "thin" matter - virtual reality - in a number of images that are based on knowledge of past events.
True, the creation of images of the future in animals is always configured in accordance with the program of their own genome only for adaptability in relation to the environment.
However, the data coming through the senses, which, after being processed in the corresponding centers of the body, turn into information (understandable reports), may be insufficient or inaccurate to understand the situation, or a living being evaluates them incorrectly, especially since every living being, excluding a person, can only use its genetic and personal experience, its own memory and it is not able to more or less accurately predict and correct its actions, since it does not set itself goals for development and improvement , but it is limited only with adaptation to the environment.
Therefore, all these creatures are forced to act by trial and error, where randomness plays the main role. This is what caused such slow evolutionary development of living beings in comparison with the accelerated motion of the human population in the direction of technological and cultural progress.
That is, the dissatisfaction of the creatures of the natural world always encounters mistakes in its striving for more pleasant, but overcomes them in generations not only due to the desire for the most comfortable arrangement in its habitat niche, not only due to the accumulation of genetic and personal experience, but also due to manifestation of their ability to constantly turn to new things in the form of curiosity, supporting this aspiration with their perseverance in accordance with the resistance of the environment.
The very survival of any organism depends on the quality of the information received in a changing environment.
Therefore, satisfaction with the present, leading practically to unwillingness to seek and consume new information, ultimately leads to the displacement of this organism from the niche it occupies, degradation, and, as a result, to death.
But every organism wants to survive, since it has appeared and began to receive sensations, and not the emptiness of nothingness. This means that this organism should not be satisfied with what is, but strive for something else, which can help it not only hold oneself in existence, but can also help improve this existence, having made life more hearty, comfortable and safe, which associated with the pleasant.
Thus, each organism must be inevitably active in relation to obtaining additional and, preferably, new information about the changes taking place, if it strives for survival, and any activity is characterized by dissatisfaction, because constant satisfaction deprives the being of a initiative aspiration towards change both its position and towards own change, that is, the creature becomes passive, indifferent, which is equivalent to death, since in the community of living beings, the loss of the aspiration to change in accordance with the changing environment, that is, the loss of timely adaptation to the environment, means imminent death.
Therefore, the basis of activity is always laid on dissatisfaction with what is available, and this dissatisfaction leads to a permanent and most beneficial adaptation to the environment for the most convenient arrangement in it, both for the most primitive organisms and for humans, and the loss of dissatisfaction means a quick and inevitable death with preceding degradation.
This aspiration for survival and, if possible, for the most pleasant sensations in every organism must be maintained so as it did not fade away.
And this instinctive support is being conditioned by the unchanged activity of a living being, which increases with the deterioration of his position, that is, with the growth of the subconscious dissatisfaction of his consciousness with oneself and with the situation, and weakening with the improvement of the position of the being when the situation is restored or improved - a kind of the negative feedback of consciousness with the environment, directly expressed in its dissatisfaction with the current situation, which gives the command to the existing "mechanisms" of an organism through intellect to strengthen the counteraction to the negative impacts of the environment during this period. Although feedback can turn into positive with insufficient counteraction from the environment to organisms, which in particular can be traced by the uncontrolled reproduction of a number of algae in the absence of enemies, eating them. We note immediately that the analogue of this phenomenon for the will is the growing boorishness of morally undeveloped people in society in the absence of rebuff to it.
The instinctive effort, which compels a living being to act in accordance with its desires, could be called the subconscious perseverance or tenacity, since it does not allow the action to fade out before it ends.
Thus, similar feedback (response) to the impact of the environment can be characterized, respectively, by bigger or smaller subconscious perseverance or tenacity of an organism in resisting this environment, or in other words - by the natural subconscious steady attraction of any being to the best adaptation towards the environment in its aspiration for the survival and the creation of the more appropriate conditions for reproduction and feeding, that is encoded in the genome.
Therefore, with change of conditions the being automatically tries to change not for the worse thanks to usual own activity, following the ability to absorb and issue information within the program of growth, development, reproduction and the actions corresponding to them coded in its genome, what do mutations in the genome contribute to, although, on the other hand, their role as randomness can be disastrous.
In addition to subconscious persistence, which supports the organism's aspiration for pleasant sensations, for more developed organisms that already understand the difference in the quality of food and the characteristics of objects of the opposite sex, such external expression of dissatisfaction of consciousness is characteristic as the desire for something new in the form of curiosity.
The cat-female often turns away from quite edible, but tasteless fish, having learned in curiosity at one time that fresh meat is much tastier. The same curiosity in combination with instincts of reproduction and experience helps it to choose from half a dozen male cats most suitable for reproductive characteristics.
Thus, curiosity helps to live more pleasantly and more comfortably, to breed more effectively, and thus occupy a higher position in one’s own niche of existence. This property of the dissatisfaction of the natural consciousness does not bypass a person, as, in part, a representative of the animal world.
That is, the dissatisfaction of the natural consciousness of all living beings, including similar dissatisfaction of a person, as a rule, is aimed at what seems to him the best, which is determined by the available intellect, and which differs from the previous by more pleasant sensations - this best is represented for a person as pleasure, but not satisfaction, which is just a pause before striving for new pleasures.
Similar obligatory activity of a living being, in which dissatisfaction with the present is manifested for the sake of a better arrangement in the future, provides an overall upward change in both the creatures themselves and their environment. That is, due to the activity of living beings, the content of flora and fauna, as well as the objects (things) around them, changes, becoming more complex and gaining more and more diversity. In other words, living beings oppose the growth of the entropy of Creation, which, if you look at it from this side, cannot exist without them in a stable state.
This activity of living beings with all its attributes, the main of which is dissatisfaction, distinguishes them, for example, from computers, since the latter seek and process only the data that their masters need, without understanding their meaning and purpose of the search, thereby acting only according to programs put in them by their masters without asking for anything in return.

II
It is precisely the striving for pleasant sensations, characteristic of all living beings, that most thinkers in the history of civilization, apparently due to a lack of understanding of the content of human consciousness, has qualified as the aspiration of a person for happiness, but they have missed such feature of a person that distinguishes him from animals as self-consciousness.
Self-consciousness not only radically expands the horizon of events and a person's attitude towards them, but also enters into an incessant struggle with natural consciousness, which does not disappear anywhere from the consciousness of a person, who is mammalian in structure.
The result of the struggle between both forms of consciousness was the rapid development of human communities, which relatively quickly came to civilization, high technologies and culture in comparison with billions of years of evolutionary development of living nature.
As a matter of fact, the agents of this struggle of both forms of consciousness in a person are dissatisfaction of the natural consciousness in a person and dissatisfaction of his self-consciousness, which most often have opposite aspirations in relation to existence in the environment.
It is this factor that ensures the passionate struggle that occurs when solving various life problems, both in each individual and in human communities.
This is explained by the fact that the dissatisfaction of a person's natural consciousness is guided only towards survival and the striving for the best possible nutrition, reproduction and comfort, which is not least facilitated by the striving for domination. All this really provides a living being with the achievement of the main thing, what is it guided by, more precisely, what does it strive for in the end - pleasant sensations, which are only required from life life on considerations of natural consciousness, and which really contribute to the evolution of organisms.
A look at life from the side of a person's self-consciousness, and, accordingly, his dissatisfaction with life is not limited to the specified set of aspirations dictated by the dissatisfaction of his own natural consciousness.
Human self-consciousness in the qualities of the main guidelines for itself puts happiness, knowledge of oneself and the world around it in the form of finding interesting and beautiful things in everything, searching for truth, and it also always tries to find harmony in life, having saved a person forever from troubles and hardships, which is an enduring delusion self-consciousness.
Therefore, the dissatisfaction of a person's self-consciousness is constantly looking for and finding appropriate means to achieve established benchmarks in the form of will, interest, high intelligence, creative imagination, creativity as the ability to search for an unobvious solution to emerging problems, own memory and experience as well as databases accumulated by humanity over the foreseeable time.
However, the aspirations of a person in his self-consciousness to the indicated guidelines collide with constant distancing of the indicated guidelines, like the ever-elusive horizon, and partly the natural consciousness opposes these aspirations of self-consciousness, which they only interfere with, distracting the natural consciousness of a person from receiving directly pleasant sensations in the course of life.
Be that as it may, but the dissatisfaction of self-consciousness did not arise out of nowhere.
The aspiration for pleasant sensations for him transformed into a desire for happiness; which is helped, like perseverance in achieving pleasant sensations, by already conscious effort to achieve the set goal - will, as well as imagination, both in abstract and figurative forms. As for prolongation getting sensations beyond life, a person found it in the form of a religion, that promised him both heaven or hell in the afterlife, depending on his behavior.
Natural curiosity as an external manifestation of dissatisfaction of natural consciousness has been turned for self-consciousness into inquisitiveness (intellectual curiosity) and aspiration to the interesting, that is, the new, in particular, - in the aspiration to know oneself and the world around in search of the final truth - clarification of the purpose of one's own existence, which is also promoted by the emerged means for external display of dissatisfaction of self-consciousness - will, interest, high intelligence, abstract and imaginative thinking (imagination), creativity, backed up by accumulated and recorded data in various databases of human civilization.
Many delusions and beliefs, not supported by anything, also distinguish humans from animals, which are not inherent in such stupidity - they use what they have, and a person, considering himself the crown of creation, mistakenly believes that the future can be turned into the present forever.
However, first let us turn to the interaction of natural consciousness and self-consciousness, since they are clearly present in a person, making up his consciousness as a whole.
Note that the emergence of self-consciousness in a person, which made him a person, partially removed the limitation of subjectivity in him, which forced all living beings only to adapt to the environment.
With the acquisition of self-consciousness, a person, unlike the rest of alive, lastly realized oneself, that is, understood, that he is situated in time, that he is mortal, and therefore life must be used not only to satisfy his own urgent needs, adapting to the environment, but deliberately change this environment at his will in order to obtain other sensations compared to animals in accordance with certain goals that turn him into a subject of action, promoting him to awareness oneself in the form of new considerations, not only in the utilitarian sphere, but in all directions that lend himself to his mind, which makes him by the most free of all living beings.
A person begins to understand the meaning of his actions, drawing up projects and correcting them on the go, that is, while remaining part of the environment, he at the same time rises above it, becoming partly its master and even creator both in various man-made structures, mechanisms, processes, so and in sphere of creations spirit, that is reflected in various areas of art, science and culture.
Such actions change significantly and with acceleration not only the environment, but also the content of self-consciousness of a person, increasing his educational and cultural level, that is, allowing him to become gradually in awareness himself all higher and higher. Therefore, this type of consciousness, which is complementary to the lowest (natural) consciousness, can be qualified as the highest consciousness of the living beings, or self-consciousness, which is inherent only in people.
Thus, in human beings there are two components of consciousness - the lowest, often called unconscious, or subconscious, and the highest consciousness, or self-consciousness. the level of which can differ significantly depending on the degree of development of the person or his communities - take, for example, the person of the Stone Age and the current Nobel laureate, - the level of consciousness and in that and other case significantly other, however self-consciousness is present both here and there, without disappearing anywhere, but the lowest consciousness, which is responsible generally for functioning of an organism (body) to hold it in a live state and to do it by adequate concerning stay of a body in the environment as well as to fix and spread an organism in the environment, remains almost invariable, i.e. almost does not depend on time.
Both these components (hypostases) exist and act in the body and through the body in an indissoluble connection, but the highest consciousness is incapable to exist without the lowest, as the last is responsible for preservation of the living being in the environment - to do without it not possible, while self-consciousness – above all for project and target activity of a person as individually, and in the human communities which are in a certain environment, and other natural beings always do without self-consciousness.
It is these deep entities in the form of the lowest consciousness and highest consciousness, hidden and intertwined in every human consciousness, and, consequently, in the public consciousness, with all their antagonism because of the need to solve various tasks for the most part contradicting each other, really determine development of human communities at any stage.
New projects and ideas develop the mind of a person, his insight, contribute to the most effective manifestation of various abilities during life, lead to the thought of beautifying life, that is, the culture of one's own beingness and beingness of the public.
In the person both these antagonistic in relation to himself and to the surrounding, hypostasis, are merged together. Therefore, they do not manifest themselves separately, but operate in a hidden way, and the degree of their domination depends on the degree of development in a person of the highest consciousness.
And the person himself often cannot predict what in the next moment will become predominant: love or hatred, anger or sympathy, sincerity or hypocrisy, timidity or courage, discretion or recklessness.
The lowest consciousness "feeds" only on the sensations that give it everything, including the harmony of existence, i.e. something acceptable and even pleasant in our understanding in a certain combination of feelings if, of course, to distract from fight of each being for survival. Therefore, it does not wish to lose the sensations at all.
Similar the type of consciousness has natural egocentrism, i.e. seeking automatically to survive, no matter what.
In the process of development of the living beings, this type of consciousness undergoes relatively minor changes, since never one of them is not able to withdraw own basic property - an unconscious desire for survival, based on the primordial activity of any living thing.
The highest consciousness which is contained in the person at any level of its development is radical contrast to the lowest consciousness.
In the presence of the highest consciousness in the living being, it begins as though to see the light, becoming not so much "poured" in the environment, how many separated from it, and, so it acquires the opportunity to look at it and on oneself from the outside, to appreciate this relation in attempts to consciously set to oneself goals in mind certain shortcomings in one's own existence, which, in the opinion of this being, could be overcome, and to try to obtain implementation of goals in actions.
All this obviously drops out of an instinctive and reflex sphere of action of the lowest consciousness, and even begins to contradict it as the highest consciousness often neglects utilitarian reasons, chasing something to unattainable, but kind heart and mind.
Being separated in self-consciousness from the environment, this being, in the course of time, in its development in relationship with the beings, which are like him, begins to feel the need for new forms, different from the primitive communal relations of still wild people, absorbed completely in the struggle for survival. In mutual communication this creature reaches such a limit that its various conscious aspirations begin to pour into significant changes in the environment, and not just on its use.
From gathering, a person passes to cattle breeding, growing cereals, other forms of economic activity and the corresponding exchange of the labor products. Inequality, ownership, the struggle for the preservation and augmentation of property, for power and et cetera are arising, that in turn requires establishment of some institutions of order in order to avoid chaos - the local states in the bosom of a growing and improving civilization were being formed.
New forms and institutions, on the one hand, ensure the accelerated development of communities already in a structured form, that is, as the states with the bodies of governance, security, courts, etc., and on the other hand, do not allow to the states to fall apart because of the contradictions, invariably tearing-apart the last.
Despite a certain progress in development of human communities according to development of self-consciousness, the essence of human consciousness which is expressed in dualism, more precisely, in divergent life-aspirations of the lowest and highest form of consciousness does not disappear anywhere, and cannot be substantially modified.
Both these parties of consciousness continuously conflict both in the person, and in the interpersonal relations: discontent with, visible inability to change quickly, the felt limitation of intelligence, abilities, etc.; the envy and hatred to competitors instantly would rip to shreds any human community if not the state with its institutes.
Nevertheless, each person manifests also qualities of the highest consciousness which are expressed not only in the intellectual and production sphere, but also in inquisitiveness, various religious and cultural forms and also in the affectional relations, somehow: friendship, love, experiences for relatives, for the fatherland, etc.
If the relationship between people on the basis of self-awareness slowly but steadily develops, then the lowest consciousness in the person remains practically unchanged.
Therefore, the ideal persons do not appear, and the lowest consciousness, despite any form of its disguise, acts at any stage of the development of human consciousness, being expressed in deep-rooted egoism (egocentrism) – personal and corporate, hypocrisy (masking), suspiciousness (caution), contempt for people of other circle (mistrust to other communities), animal instincts concerning an opposite sex, etc.
Thus, the highest consciousness in the course of its growth begins to oppose itself to the lowest consciousness more and more effectively - the struggle between them just distinguishes the person from animals, being manifested at early stages of development is hardly noticeable, and then - all stronger and stronger.
In other words, the growth of self-awareness, or raising the level of the highest consciousness in the struggle with the lowest consciousness, gradually, but with an acceleration, expands the human sphere of activity, ensuring the permanent development both certain persons in their generations, and the development of their communities.
With the growth of self-awareness and, thus, the increase in the self-sufficiency of civilization, the action of the majority of the above-mentioned natural factors are increasingly leveled, which means that they really manifest themselves as necessary external, but not the fundamental to the human consciousness.
Consequently, the intensive development of communities of the living beings - previously barely noticeable, and the main contribution to which was made by mutations (random changes in the genome) - begins only with the appearance in them of self-consciousness, and accordingly - with its interaction with the lowest (animal) consciousness, which does not disappear anywhere from these living beings. This interaction is expressed practically in incessant fight of these consciousness forms, merged together, as they mostly have opposite aspirations, what it was in detail told above about, i.e. their interaction mainly is expressed in hostility.

III
Be that as it may, any living creature, striving for the most pleasant sensations, must overcome the resistance of the environment, and, in particular, its own competitors. Therefore, it is trying with all its might to free itself from everything that hinders it in this.
Such striving for the pleasant because of dissatisfaction with that existing, means an initial degree of liberty that only living beings have, since everything else does not strive for anything.
Thus, liberty is expressed only in aspirations, albeit at first unconscious, to what is felt or seems to be better for a living being, more precisely, more pleasant, since all information comes from the senses. That is, liberty in certain actions is manifested even in the simplest considerations of ciliates with their primitive data processing centers, arriving in the form of sensations (information), dictating them to strive where it is warm, humid, satiated, safe.
The natural consciousness of a person is tuned in the same way as that of all other living beings, being, if possible, in search of the best, that is, more pleasant, which a person calls pleasures.
However, unlike animals, using own more developed information processing centers and rather diverse senses, a person has brought the primitive feeling of satiety to the finest sensations from the highest quality, unusual or exquisite food by highlighting gourmets, who know how to enjoy fine wines and fragrant cigars, often combining all these pleasures with the already highest human comfort instead of a warm cave, relaxing on silk sheets in a luxurious bedroom overlooking the mountains, or sipping juice under palm trees on a sandy beach, or gliding on skis crisp snow between the pines, and in the evening enjoying mulled wine by the fireplace with a pretty lady, preferably younger. To this can be added the pleasure of a pleasant combination of sounds, for example, Mozart's symphony or contemplation of fist fights or throwing a ball around the field - who wants what more, that is, to what the consciousness strives in own dissatisfaction by existing. In addition, if one succeeds in pushing back competitors, then honours, glory or power can give extraordinary pleasure.
All these improvements of pleasant sensations, however, do not change their original animal nature/ Besides they are quite achievable at one level or another, but quickly get bored even with constant changes, which is well known to the rich, who have enough money for all these pleasures.
However, the bulk of the population, observing foe all these luxuries, only dreams of them, doing boring and uninteresting work, but for nothing dreams.
If a poor person becomes a rich person, then he cannot in the least distance himself from troubles and adversities, albeit of a different order, but no less painful, from anxiety and death, and in this respect he is also dependent on circumstances and to a large extent not free.
Unlike animals, a person nonetheless understands the problematic nature of eliminating all life's distress, calamity, grief, and troubles, but he cannot help dreaming of life without them. And then religion appears with its consolation and proclamation of the otherworldly paradise thanks to good behavior in this world.
However, a person wants good things without grief and in this world. He always thinks about the arrangement of his own small individual welfare, upon reaching which his life will turn into his own local paradise. And this paradise, constructed by him in his imagination, seems to him by no means impossible.
That is, if animals strive only for pleasant sensations and, having achieved them, receive temporary satisfaction by repeating this procedure over and over again, as, incidentally, the majority of people who regard pleasure as happiness, then, in principle, any person who has a sufficiently developed imagination, cannot be satisfied with animal sensations, even in an improved form.
Firstly, animal delectable sensations always become satiety, and as this satiety, we can determine the degree of primitiveness of a person, that is, his closeness to the monkey worldview, which is especially clearly manifested in those in power - they quite often do not get tired of using their position to get pleasant sensations, which are similar to sensations of animals and they do not strive for more, sinking, in essence, to the level of animals, that is, gradually degrading as a result of an attempt to eliminate the dissatisfaction of self-consciousness by replacing it with the dissatisfaction of animal consciousness.
Secondly, the dissatisfaction of self-consciousness of a person, manifesting in any case, requires more from him than a comfortable life. Therefore, every person, at least in thoughts and desires, wants to become better, to bring more benefit to society, to move away from egocentrism, to make himself a bearer of truth and fairness, but nothing turns out, and then he builds an image, as it seems to him, of a situation available to him, where everything is wonderful, where everyone loves and respects him, he himself bathes in a cloud of admiration of his virtues, which appeared from nowhere, where he has everything, and nothing more is needed. In general, he is completely happy. Such an individual local paradise seems him much more than transitory pleasures, and he tries in every possible way, as long as there is strength, to attain it.
But nothing worthwhile comes out, although the hope does not leave a person until the strength was exhausted, the passions are strong, the will keeps him in tension, the imagination is seething and the mind is not yet darkened. The drawn happiness so and remains in the imagination, but the desire for it somehow develops a person, not allowing him to freeze at the level of animal sensations, being satisfied only with them.
A person in his pursuit of happiness is always supported by another property of dissatisfaction of self-consciousness, which has grown on the basis of animal persistence in solving various problems of survival in overcoming difficulties and obstacles, and is used by him as the mean to achieve a goal, whatever it may be, real or illusory, as, for example, is happiness.
If the response of any organism to the impact of the environment can be characterized, respectively, by the greater or lesser subconscious persistence of the organism in resisting it, or in other words, by the natural attraction of the creature to the best adaptation to the surrounding in its aspiration to survive and create the most suitable conditions for reproduction and food, that is encoded in the genome, then the awareness of the goal, characteristic of any person, just as the subconscious perseverance, in order to avoid the extinction of the aspiration for the intended through various obstacles, creates an effort to overcome obstacles to the goal.
Thus, in the course of striving for a goal, whether it is achieved or not, overcoming obstacles, a person receives a visible development for himself. In other words, in the process of developing self-consciousness, the most important thing is not the result itself, but the change in self-consciousness that is obtained in the course of moving towards the goal.
That is why a new conscious "perseverance" in the form of incentive oneself to achieve one's own goal should be called will, that is, permission from the side of dissatisfaction of self-consciousness, based on data processing mainly in the human cerebral cortex (intelligence of self-consciousness) and making the appropriate decision by this intelligence for the incentive (volitional impulse) of a person to consciously strive for what was planned, regardless of obstacles, since it attracts to itself, that is, to the future, into the new, and, perhaps, to the better. In particular, this fact was noted in the English language by the coincidence of this permission with the verb form of the future tense "will", showing the direction of will into the future.
In addition to the incentive to conscious action through the will and the incentive to subconscious action through instinctive persistence, the dissatisfaction of human consciousness through will and persistence respectively, consciously and instinctively regulates the strengthening or weakening of the human impact on the environment, depending on its resistance, thereby realizing a feedback with the environment.
Thus, the most important consequence of the action of the dissatisfaction of a person's self-consciousness, realized through the intellect, is the setting of a goal and the same conscious decision to start moving towards it.
However, due to the many life problems that arise, this decision may be forgotten or put off in vain.
Therefore, like the instinctive persistence of animal consciousness, which ensures the stability of the aspiration of a creature for prey, a female or supremacy in the habitat, a person's self-consciousness should also provide an effort for the sustainability of aspiration, but already towards a goal, consciously designated.
This duty also takes on the main property of human self-consciousness – its dissatisfaction with oneself.
The specific individual selects the relevant data for comparison with other people and the state of affairs in community from the available information channels. The processing of incoming data, carried out in the relevant center (self-consciousness intelligence) concretizing dissatisfaction with yourself in a certain respect, allows to respond to one or the other challenges by making a decision
The implementation of this decision is made at the command of the intellect, organizing the conscious effort-directionality, in order to create the stability in the pursuit of the goal.
This conscious effort-directionality is like the instinctive perseverance of the animal consciousness, since it is also basically a reaction to the surrounding.
However, subconscious perseverance is nothing more than an adaptive response to a change in the environment, an instinctive accounting of changes of which makes it possible at least to survive in it.
The difference of the effort-orientation inside the self-conscious sphere of a person from the instinctive perseverance of his own subconscious sphere lies only ininitiativeness of the effort-orientation inside the self-conscious sphere of a person, dictated by the conscious dissatisfaction of the person by the surrounding through intelligence.
For this reason, a person always has the ability to plan, which allows him to stay ahead of the present in the formulation of the future (goals), thereby creating the possibility of partially going beyond the limits of the environment and circumstances. In other words, dissatisfaction of the self-consciousness of the person in this process is transformed into liberty understood by the person, and realized in his conscious actions, the choice of which is not predetermined and not arbitrary, but this choice is divided into pragmatic and fantasy - and it is both capable to win.
The intensity of a conscious reaction to what is happening, or the intensity of will, depends on the importance of the goal and on the level of the person’s self-consciousness, which is determined primarily by the individual properties of the brain, and secondly by the degree of upbringing and education of the person.
Thereby the will as conscious reaction to the events as outside, and inside the person in the form of steady mental effort on achievement of a goal creates a possibility of a pursuit of a prospect in the conditions of the competitive environment, maintaining the forward orientation of the development, accelerating more and more owing to growth of information flows, made by the extending activity of human communities up to information collapse
Attraction to pleasant sensations can also be for a person and indirect - in the form of interest, which is a conscious analogue of instinctive curiosity.
Interest, in itself, is an attraction to something new, incomprehensible, mysterious, and therefore interesting, which a person wants to understand, and if he succeeds in this, then he certainly experiences pleasant sensations due to his sharpness and dexterity.
Thus, interest is a process, behind which there is always dissatisfaction of self-consciousness with the present, and interesting is a product of interest. The will also supports this attraction to the interesting.
What is interesting differs from happiness in that it can be achieved or comprehended.
However, it is not possible to finally find satisfaction in something interesting because, having stopped at one thing, you can lose the rest, which cannot be allowed, otherwise you will not receive new satisfaction in another interesting one.
This is well known to people of creative pursuits - artists, writers, inventors, composers, who, having accomplished one thing, strive for another interesting thing, because what has already been discovered and analyzed immediately becomes uninteresting for them.
In this respect, the interesting is similar to happiness, which is explained by the action of the multifaceted dissatisfaction of self-consciousness in both cases, which is a derivative of activity, and stops only with the death of a person. True, happiness, in contrast to the interesting, can never be finally achieved.
Thus, the development of a person's self-awareness to a certain extent consists in the constant expansion of the list of interesting things, and the main role in this process plays dissatisfaction of self-consciousness.
In other words, the attraction to the interesting is caused by a person's dissatisfaction with himself in the ability to embrace the immense, the consequence of which is "snatching" from this endless list of the desired form in order to "nest" in it, but it is either not given in its entirety, or ceases to be mysterious, becoming commonplace, like a telephone or TV.
In addition to happiness and interesting, pleasant sensations are caused beautiful.
The beautiful, that is, those objects and phenomena that attract self-consciousness of a person by their harmony and unbreakable perfection, has that difference from the interesting, that the beautiful always remains unchanged. It does not depend on current events, and therefore has no direct relation to process of knowledge like inquisitiveness or interest.
A person's attraction to the beautiful differs from the attraction to happiness or interest in something in the absence of seeking benefits in it. And yet, the beautiful brings a person the enjoyment by the very existence of perfection, to which one should strive, not being satisfied with anything else, which means, in fact, striving for the impossible, which turns out, paradoxically, the most important for the development of human self-consciousness.
And again, this striving for the beautiful can only provide dissatisfaction of self-consciousness as the main manifestation of purposeful activity.
The very same degree of touching the beautiful depends on the level of development of a person's self-consciousness: the higher it is, the more inclined a person is to the beautiful, the lower this level, the more addiction a person experiences for pleasures, small interesting and simply curious, since the lower, or animal component already prevails in his consciousness, directed not at high ideas and feelings, not at beauty in the world, but only at the consumption of sensations from eating, breeding, domination. and the convenience of own accommodation.
The beautiful does not make a person better - kinder, more fun, it only highlights the degree of development of his self-consciousness, demonstrating himself, but not revealing his own essence.
Therefore, a person, perceiving in one way or another the forms of the beautiful, can only guess about essence of the beautiful, just as he wonders about what is beyond the threshold of death, or what is the essence of his own consciousness. The beautiful, like the interesting, is a source of information, but, unlike the interesting, which when turning to it becomes mundane, the beautiful, attracting the attention to oneself, always evokes an enduring interest not only by harmonic fusion of the elements of its image in consciousness, not only by its stability in harmony, but also by its eternal mystery for a person: every day can be admired by the sunset, the autumn foliage of trees, the overflow of sea waves, Raphael's Madonna , although pragmatically this is completely meaningless.
Apparently, in this indecipherable attraction the person feels that unshakable foundation of Creation, which is also present in him.
Dissatisfaction of self-consciousness also provides a lofty mood of a person in his self-consciousness by the fact that he is able to engage in unraveling both the world order and his own essence, which in itself cannot be unpleasant.
A person calls this process the search for truth.
The strangest thing in this pursuit of truth is that all regularities, that are discovered, turn out to be local, and other regularities are hidden behind them, creating a feeling of infinity of this process.
If to assume that truth is adequate display of the reality in consciousness, or the adequate information on objects allowing the person to solve theoretical and practical problems, i.e. to developed consciously, don't stand still, to be in this regard as the free, then it is necessary to recognize by insufficient determination of truth as soon as correspondence of a thing to intelligence so as, in particular, during life the person every time after processing of information from different sources has no sufficient confidence in adequate display of the reality in own consciousness, and a lot of things he is forced to be taking on trust, and a lot of things to be testing in practice at random.
Indeed, this definition can reflect only aspiration of human intelligence to cognition of things. The intelligence of the person is feeble, his life is short, and the real world is infinitely various. Some established patterns during cognition, flow of life are changed by others; new relationships, communications emerge.
At this, the world of the human relations is more complex and unstable, than the physical world. All achievements of human thought don't lead to elimination of dissociation of certain individuals and different peoples.
The nature shows the force periodically, incomparable with human, easily breaking any human construction, as and the person, despite a present technical equipment of mankind.
Therefore, the doubt appears in many minds: are there any comprehensive, full or absolute truths generally, time nothing can make the person happy, his life the infinite and cloudless and, at the same time, meaningful?
And indeed, we can operate by concept of absolute truth only concerning such banal statements as Volga flows into the Caspian Sea, and even then - in frames of the current life, when there are still seas and life itself.
The deepening of scientists in the microcosm, in space exploration doesn't explain the appearance of alive in this world, appearance of self-consciousness in the anthropoid, more precisely, the appearance of the being which can self-aware.
Knowledge of any subject can't be gained in full so as it is possible to go deep into it infinitely. So the truth for a person can have only essence character on the appropriate thresholds of knowing.
In addition, it should be noted that all representing (being) originally is for a person at all not accordance of knowledge to the reality, so as knowledge, as such, still was not present, but it is compliance to sensations after their processing by consciousness with the advent of the spatial-temporal changing picture of life.
But a person doesn't stop, unlike others living beings, on this "picture". He, as the being, which understands himself, with unmeasurable needs and the infinite, more precisely, intransient aspirations, wishes to learn the world and to improve the life, for what he willy-nilly should penetrate into essence of things, "extracting" from them at each level this or that truths, naturally, - the relative, or adequate only for this level. Passing different levels in cognition the being, understanding himself, broadens thereby own horizons, defines stability in things and in their order under different conditions and anyway changes the own life, and, so, changes the own consciousness.
Truth belongs to concepts by means of which human consciousness tries to estimate authenticity of the events in order to not to wallow in illusions, the false, different distortions of information that inevitably leads to the death. In fact, therefore the aspiration to truth, doing possible existence of human communities is characteristic for human consciousness.
Turns out that truth is the equivalent of representing (beingness) to consciousness in experience, confirmed in every case by successes of consciousness in the use of beingness, exactly by this condition truth is determined and goes to the existence. Therefore, truth corresponds to a level of development of consciousness and in this sense it is relative and truth can actually be equated to essence of a certain level and conditions of beingness in which it is comprehended.
Numerous definitions of concept of truth affects only its separate sides, but doesn't penetrate into its sense. inasmuch classical definition of truth, in which the main criterion of truth is identity of thinking and beingness, rests against the fuzzy concepts "thinking" and "beingness" which yet should be brought into accord somehow.
However, to truth anyway only consciousness in the form self-consciousness can come, "having looked" at itself, at the surrounding and, further selecting subjects, to try to bring into accord with own intentions these subjects, most likely, changing them in own highest expression, rather than adapting of yourself under them.
Therefore truth in the course of cognition is always specific and depends on the level of knowledge and ability to put them, i.e. it is checked by practice, as a rule, and only limited it is checked by benefit, so how what it seems pragmatically superfluous and even unwanted for this moment in the form of knowledge and skills can "flip" the world in the sequel, whereas the aspiration to benefit, to satisfaction of the desires, determined only by conviction (belief) is downfall of a person up to level of "consumption" only the useful that is similar to the animal adaptation to the environment instead of its conversion, and it leads eventually to degradation of a person.
Truth in accordance with the growth of knowledge and practical application changes its appearance so how human consciousness goes from essences of one level to essences which are deeper. And in this sense truth corresponds to essences revealed.
Except of the practice the stability can be criterion of truth. The stability is expressed in a number of logical deductions, virtually no checking, but based on known laws.
One cannot also deny touch to truth by means of intuition, i.e. as the process of finding truth without the intermediate steps from the first principle to whom may be just aught appearing (representing) inasmuch human consciousness cannot penetrate into the transcendental (otherworldly) from where is taken all, that appears.
In terms of the interaction of consciousness and things, identified by consciousness, process of deepening of consciousness in the thing depends on the level of consciousness, which can understand the essence of thing only in accordance with it, moving ahead, for example, from the general concepts "heat" and "cold" to laws of molecular motion in different environments.
Therefore, it is inadequate to consider that each step in the knowledge is the absolute truth, moreover it is possible to go deep into the thing infinitely not only because nobody knows its depth but also because consciousness itself changes "jumping" from one level of development on another where things appear before him in other appearance and obey to other regularities.
Perhaps that is why the oldest religion on Earth - Hinduism - stated: truth cannot be expressed because of its diversity.
Nevertheless, appearing before us is not a mirage, but an essence of initial degree, in the conditions of which not only the person as a self-conscious being, but also all other living beings can exist: here truth, phenomenon, essence and existence is one.
And this initial essence, presented to us for comprehension, allows us to draw, perhaps, a banal, but final, and in this sense, the fundamental conclusion that life is impossible without what is (beingness), and only two essences represent it: the active, which is able to perceive certain signals, transforming them into information, and passive, which can only be a carrier of information.
but truth is manifested in a number of essences of things for consciousness, for its infinite development, which overcomes in a person the resistance щf things, revealing their essence. Consciousness thereby changes itself, creating for itself life and development in the form of aspiration to something the new, unfamiliar, interesting, attracting. In this sense truth is represented only as the eluding purpose, necessary for "running" of consciousness.
Here the person's consciousness is engaged by penetration in the reality which it forms: the process of cognition passes with receiving various relative truths, helping, in particular, the person to live, as well as expanding his conceptions of the world from one level of cognition to another.
Consciousness in this process of penetration into the real receives various calls, overcomes difficulties because of the opposition of the antagonistic environment, makes mistakes; but it seeks to go forward - to change and evolve.
And in communications with the likes of itself every individual consciousness in this process of development has an opportunity to share information which is available for it, i.e. to express itself through various experiences in the person, without what any life as such, has no meaning.
Each individual consciousness through a person and human communities itself has to examine in things, comprehending them essence at appropriate levels of knowing in dependence on conditions. This is the main task of consciousness in a person, which he solves in beingness, not just the life that is given to consciousness in any living being. In the solution of this task in the conditions of the resisting environment, i.e. in life, each individual consciousness in a person receives or no receives own development, raising the status in own eyes in the infinite change, altering conditions of own existence.
And in this process, one cannot do without dissatisfaction of self-consciousness by oneself and surrounding, especially since dissatisfaction has the means by which a person in his self-consciousness is able to find himself in the world in search of truth, and even try to find some harmony in life, which again contributes to the development of self-consciousness.
These means are known to everyone - they are will, interest, high intelligence, abstract and imaginative thinking (imagination), creativity as the ability to search for non-obvious solutions to emerging problems, own memory and databases accumulated by mankind during the foreseeable time, and relevant experience.
Of course, they can be defined in different ways, but the result of the work of these means of manifestation of dissatisfaction of self-consciousness of a person is the development of his self-consciousness, which we observe with our own eyes, being able to compare people of different historical eras - from the Neolithic, with the terrifying savagery of people, who have devoured the defeated opponents, to the stage of the emergence of the Internet, when people of different nations get to know each other, understanding and respecting each other, despite the distance and belonging to different peoples.

IV
In conclusion, it makes sense to compare the dissatisfaction of a person's consciousness in the forms, defined above, with the phenomenon of passionarity. It was first noted by L.N. Gumilyov, and it became quite popular, but it was incorrectly explained by him both by its origins - energy replenished from the outside, and by the nature of the action, controlled, in Gumilyov's opinion, by an external force.
Gumilev believed that a certain inner essence acts in every person and the degree of activity of this essence, or ability, is determined by its fullness in a person. It is this fullness that makes a person fall into a passive state or into an active one, or both of these states are balanced.
However, he reduced this inner essence, or ability, which he called passionarity, to internal energy of an incomprehensible type, which a person replenishes in one volume or another from the reservoir of the Earth's biosphere, and he noted that this ability can give such a strong impulse to the change of a person's environment that, as a result, the instinct of self-preservation is overcome.
Such approach not only equates living beings with inanimate objects, each of which has energy without vitality (consciousness), but this approach also deprives a person to act initiatively (independently), since he is invisibly moved by an external force that is not included his consciousness.
The activity of living beings, including humans, in contrast to other objects of beingness, which are subjected only to natural laws: the laws of conservation, the law of non-decreasing entropy, Newton's laws, etc., is determined by one's own consciousness, which represents the only difference between living beings and other objects of beingness. Otherwise, the activity of living beings would not differ in any way from the circulation of other objects of beingness but we do not observe this.
This essence, property, peculiarity, ability makes a person, and in general, all living things do not stand still - to develop, while it is sensitive to the circumstances of life and the environment, manifesting itself for a person in feelings, thoughts and actions in two ways: on the one hand, forcing him in any case not to lose activity, on the other hand, sharply raising or lowering its level under a certain set of circumstances, both natural and artificial.
We have shown above that this property of consciousness is dissatisfaction of consciousness, which manifests itself simultaneously as the dissatisfaction of natural consciousness (instinctively) and the dissatisfaction of self-consciousness (consciously).
We also noted the landmarks towards which the dissatisfaction of self-consciousness aspires, along with the means to which it resorts.
However, so-called passionarity, noted by Gumilev, has nothing to do with the dissatisfaction of self-consciousness, since it is unconscious.
Of course, the cause of this unconscious dissatisfaction in its strongest expression (passionarity) cannot be some kind of energy, which incomprehensibly how is taken a person from the Earth's biosphere and is transformed into his operation.
External influences on a person can only be some occasion for a person to deploy unconscious increased activity, the source of which is the dissatisfaction of natural consciousness, in conditions of sudden and threatening changes in the environment, which are not yet fixed by the main sensations of a person, for example, due to the remoteness of these threats in time or space, but they can be perceived by a kind of rudimentary, more precisely, auxiliary sensory organs and processed by the limbic part of the brain , thereby giving a signal to save life, and this process has nothing to do with self-consciousness.
True, man has almost completely lost these abilities of ancient creatures, which are fairly well preserved in a number of existing organisms. Therefore, they sense earthquakes, floods and even fires in advance, escaping in a timely manner.
And yet, there are quite a few people who have retained the ability to respond in time to invisible threats, and they can drag the masses with them if they have power over them.
This explains the initially unmotivated migrations of individual communities, not to mention the sacrifice of some people to preserve the entire community.
However, not only in people, but even in fish and insects, there are failures in the interpretation (decoding) of sensations, as a result of which they choose the wrong direction or action for salvation: for example, whole schools of fish in panic fall into the mouths of predators, whales are thrown ashore, insects migrate to waterless areas, etc.
And people all the time, both individually and collectively, manage to quite often quite unconsciously get into unjustified clashes and wars, senseless quarrels. They also often commit reckless acts, sometimes claiming that some voice allegedly ordered them to do this stupidity, which often ends in disaster.
All these phenomena, which at first seem mysterious and not amenable to explanation, are in fact a manifestation of two forces acting in a person - natural consciousness and self-consciousness, merged together, as a result of which it is often not clear which of them dominates and why, but in case so-called passionarity the dissatisfaction of the natural (the lowest) consciousness begins to manifest quite strongly (dominate) as a reaction to a latent external threat, which is naturally not consciously tracked by a person.