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Features and role of the distribution of information by population

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    The information coming to the population is allocated and consumed extremely unevenly. Its non-obvious component is revealed and used by a relatively small group of so-called creative personalities, constituting the process of cognition, while the information used in accordance with the realities of everyday life is consumed by other groups of the population, being transformed in a certain way into a ersatz of cognition, but still having a certain meaning, what can be found below.
  
  
  Keywords: information, creativity, consciousness, self-consciousness, environment, sensations, cognition, faith.
  
  The rate of evolutionary change of living beings towards their complexity is determined in many ways by the speed of processing of information incoming from their sense organs, which is minimal in plants, and maximal for warm-blooded creatures, which have the most complex structure with an optimal set of various sense organs and an expanded nervous system, the basis of which is the most complexly structured organ for processing incoming information - the brain.
  All living beings are forced to interact with their environment, at least to preserve themselves in it, which is determined by the flow of information into their senses, giving them the corresponding sensations that serve as a response to this information, which not only gives them a sense of life, but also allows them, after processing this information, to gain an understanding of their own place in the environment with such behavior in it that can, at a minimum, preserve this feeling of life for them.
  In other words, all living beings try to adapt to changing conditions, being completely dependent on them to maintain their own existence in these conditions.
  The difference between a person and any other living being is that, along with adaptability, he has acquired the ability to respond to the impact of the environment not only by automatically coordinating his behavior with it, but also by isolating from the incoming information flow channels that are capable of providing the opportunity to change this environment to one degree or another in order to achieve the goals of a more comfortable and safe existence in it.
  Naturally, this aspiration to cognition has a number of gradations - from one or another degree of rationalization of one's own life to the desire to penetrate into the essence of things and phenomena in order to use this knowledge not only for the sake of improving one's own position in the relevant environment, but also to satisfy one's own interests, which may go beyond the scope of ordinary consumer values.
  However, as a rule, the interests of the overwhelming majority of people are limited to their own daily life for two main reasons - conditions that do not allow them to obtain sufficient knowledge due to being in a state of permanent survival, in which most of the planet's population finds itself, and insufficient ingenuity, which, for example, due to the design of their own brain, does not allow them to effectively engage in creative activity, although many of them are not lacking in mind, that is, excellent memory, speed, and coherent logical thinking.
  But this is not enough to penetrate into the essence of things and phenomena.
  Therefore, the smart people are able to arrange themselves along well in life and even under certain conditions, especially within the framework of scientific activity, they are capable of combinatorics, which gives a previously unknown combination of the known, as well as research using experiments. But despite the possible broad coverage and understanding of a mass of subjects or, conversely, the possible deepest understanding of a separate subject, a significant amount of memory, the speed of decisions, all these smart people work as if within the framework of certain programs embedded by themselves into oneself, which exclude the search for absolutely new solutions, inventions, discoveries.
  That is, the combinatorics does not allow you to reach qualitatively different levels of cognition and development, since the non-obvious knowledge is inaccessible to it due to insufficient to identify them only logical and abstract thinking, which are derivatives of the self-consciousness of a person, and it is inherent in any individual, although at various levels, which is determined by education, upbringing and, in general, sufficiently favorable environment, as well as the appropriate design of the brain, which he inherits from his parents.
  However, a person has also inherited from his animal ancestors an instinctive-reflexive thinking, which is characterized by the need for an immediate reaction to what is happening for the sake of one's own survival with an insufficient amount of knowledge, and this reaction in this case can only be spontaneous-intuitive, based on genetically accumulated experience, as well as on one or another degree of ability to use the random, chaotic and extraneous, snatching from all this at the moment what is needed, for example, to save a life, and this may not have a direct relation to the knowledge acquired during life.
  But most people in their mostly routine activities do not use this property of the natural form of their own consciousness due to the fact that a relatively safe life within the framework of civilization does not require direct contact with this property of the natural consciousness of instant salvation, unless in wars or during some kind of catastrophe.
  Therefore, relatively few people use this kind of instantaneous insight by the nature of their work, for example, aviators, sappers, drivers of motor transport, researchers of various incomprehensible natural phenomena, that is, those who, willy-nilly, have to risk their lives.
  But the effectiveness of the insight in relation to the discovery of something new depends not only on this property of the natural human consciousness, but also on the application of the corresponding insight to one's individual experience and the ability to logically comprehend the results obtained, that is, to isolate what is needed, paying attention to it, in other words, in the ability to filter incoming heterogeneous information in accordance with the given goals, or in the ability to extract the non-obvious out of chaos.
  This kind of insight, attracting something third-party to the established order, is sometimes capable of radically reformatting this order, as evidenced by the impact of all fundamental discoveries and inventions on civilization, accelerating its course, especially, this concerns the steam engine and the Internet.
  Thus, directly from previous knowledge, by logical means using data from experience, it is possible, in essence, to obtain knowledge that lies on the surface, since the methods of extracting it are logically consistent and rather smoothly improve or supplement what is already known, without making radical turns, that is, being quite obvious, and, as a rule, are discovered depending on public needs not by one, but by a number of scientists in different countries of the world.
  Creativity is already associated with obtaining fundamentally new knowledge that is not obvious, that is, no combinations of known knowledge, no conclusions in the form of formal logic can give it, as well as experiments aimed at improving the known.
  Thus, fundamentally new knowledge always manifests itself as unexpected for the entire audience, which, as a rule, is not immediately able to perceive and use it.
  The phenomenon of creativity is considered in more detail in my work "How can one attract randomness and take advantage of it in the process of creativity?" (See, for example, Nizovtsev Yu. M. Monography "About the origin and manifestation of personality". Chapter 7. 2024. [Electronic resource]. Access mode: www.litres.ru. Amazon)
  In nature, throughout its entire existence, the natural selection in the environment of living beings is a necessity based on randomness, whereas in the human communities, along with the natural selection, there is a kind of the artificial, or more precisely, the aware selection of persons capable of solving problems of the unexpected arrival, that do not lend to known methods, that is, a selection caused by necessity based on awareness of changes in the environment, taking into account one's own needs and interests, which entails a public challenge from non-being of innovations that satisfy these needs and interests.
  Only creative people are able to accept this challenge. Therefore, they appear mainly in the course of revolutions, wars, famines and other cataclysms, coming up with new theories explaining the world structure and the course of social development, inventing an atomic bomb, computers and spaceships.
  If we consider this process from the point of view of consumption and distribution of information, then only the creative people, who, as you know, are relatively few, are able to isolate non-obvious knowledge from the flow of information, and what is capable of the rest of the population, whose number reaches eight billion, moreover, without the consumption of information, life in its development becomes impossible, so how the own time of any person or community freezes at best?
  As for the own time of each living being, the flow of which passes unnoticed by him, it depends mainly on the speed of processing information coming into the body through the senses, which in the course of evolution has acquired significant differences for various creatures, as if slower for plants (the lifespan of a sequoia and yew reaches 3 thousand years of astronomical time) and faster, in particular, for small crustaceans (several weeks of astronomical time). The own time for each living being begins with its birth and ends with its death, differing at the same time by a maximum of millions of times in units of astronomical time, but, nevertheless, fully corresponding to all the canons of the life cycle (growth, development, reproduction, decline in vital activity).
  Therefore, a person as a living being also depends on his own time, which is an information product. Therefore, it seems to be suspended without receiving information that only makes changes in life, and without it the subject loses the feeling of life.
  If the creative individuals not only consume information in abundance, but also extract from it what is significant for them in terms of obtaining non-obvious knowledge, then for everyone else this is not available due to the above factors, although with a change in conditions, for example, the introduction of widespread education of a sufficiently high level in a particular region and material support for the younger generation, the number of creative individuals can increase significantly.
  Nevertheless, the overwhelming majority of the population is forced to consume information only in accordance with their rather limited interests, which, for example, in scientific activity or art, can be the development of discoveries of the creative people in the form of their description, additional justification and implementation, and for the rest these interests are limited, as a rule, to the improvement of their everyday life, since this population has no relation to either science or art, being engaged, as a rule, in the consumption of their products, not always the best.
  These philistines, as is known, are guided mainly by their own mind and experience: preoccupied with themselves and their own well-being, they do not strive for either "high" or "low" goals, limiting themselves to the desire for a trouble-free and well-fed life, in which troubles are desirable to see only on the monitor screen. The philistines do not experience a desire for something new through their own efforts, achieving a more comfortable state in life from the position of simply acquiring and consuming its benefits.
  The lack of aspirations for a restless life is due to a low level of intelligence, unwillingness to use one"s mind, even if it is relatively good, weak sensitivity in relation to other people"s troubles and misfortunes, insufficient impressionability, determination, sociability, curiosity, inquisitiveness and dominance, that is, the philistines have a kind of low-grade individuality and an unremarkable personality.
  The conditions of existence, the low level of self-consciousness, the limited interests do not contribute to the transformation of this entire mass of people into smart, educated, cultured, creative, energetic and sociable subjects.
  Only a few percent of them stand out.
  And the main component of these percent in relation to the technological and cultural development of society are the creative personalities.
  Their interests are mostly reduced to attempts to discover something new in different spheres of life - from the invention of various devices and devices to make this life easier to the discoverers of the laws that govern our world, and the creators of copies of the beautiful that they discover in the surrounding world.
  That is, one part of these creative people is most interested in learning about the world around them, using the knowledge they have gained both to expand the scope of knowledge and for the applied purposes of changing the surrounding reality - these are scientists and inventors whose activities lead to the development of technologies and, ultimately, to the constant re-equipment of technical means of production, trade, weapons and everyday life.
  The most effective way to transform the environment in which the rest of the natives live is to use a creative approach to changing reality.
  Therefore, along with the improvement of the social order, one way or another, the technological equipment of society influencing mutually also on the social structure, and, consequently, the economy, including the growth of labor productivity and the emergence of its facilitated forms.
  Thus, the process of technological development of civilization is provided by this group of individuals, and not by any other forces, groups or relations. Therefore, only creative individuals play the role of the driving force of technologies, which is facilitated, paradoxically, mainly by various world and social cataclysms.
  However, any motion in society, including turns and revolutions in the social order, especially cardinal ones, occurs only at a sufficiently high level of culture, if not of the entire population, then of its leading strata, the main contribution to the achievement of which is made by a group of creative individuals, manifesting themselves in that sphere of development of society that is closest to the inner world of a person, that is, his self-consciousness.
  This group, interested more in the inner world of man and his communities, tries in various ways to penetrate it, relating some people to others, comparing a person with nature and society, and also finding out the ability of man to reflect these relationships in the artificial forms.
  It is these creative individuals who, to varying degrees, but still, produce cultural values in various forms, and directly influence the minds and feelings of the population, touching the most sensitive strings of self-consciousness of each person, due to which both individual and collectivist self-consciousness gradually changes: morals soften, the population's thirst for knowledge grows, the number of intellectually and emotionally developed people increases.
  Be that as it may, but the bulk of the population - the philistines - remains outside the production of this flow of ideas and achievements, which captures them only from the position of consuming the new that has appeared, which interests the average person for the sake of, at a minimum, a well-fed, safe and pleasant existence in general, and, at a maximum, the most comfortable existence surrounded by a wide variety of things, including palaces and yachts, with dominance not only over the servants, but also, preferably, over as large a mass of the population as possible.
  That is, in this attitude to life they are not much different from the animals, who strive for these very benefits also with varying degrees of success.
  In the so-called third world countries, where most of the planet's population lives, the number of the philistines approaches one hundred percent. Accordingly, their consumption of information is only at the everyday level, creative people are practically absent. Therefore, development in these countries is slowed down, and many of them are "stuck" at the tribal or feudal level, and cannot get out of it.
  The situation is somewhat better in the so-called developing countries, where some part of the population has already joined the development of technologies and the basics of culture, but their contribution to the treasury of the new is extremely small, especially since this developed part in significant numbers prefers to migrate to developed countries, working for their economy, science and technological equipment, due to which, to a high degree, these countries are still in the rank of developed, since their own population has significantly degraded in recent decades, carried away by the virtual world, from which nothing new can be expected.
  Thus, the general development of science, culture and technology has significantly slowed down by now, an indicator of which is the lack of breakthrough technologies, as well as significant achievements in culture, in which literature and painting have turned into cheap crafts, of little interest.
  That is, the productive consumption of information has been gradually reduced to a minimum in recent times, which means the degradation of civilization as a whole, since the leading countries of the world have essentially stopped developing, and the rest of the countries in this regard are simply weak, that is, capable of only using what is known, but nothing more.
  However, the world has not yet frozen, but somehow exists, admittedly, rather baldly, but, nevertheless, the information coming into it is not lost, and, paradoxically for many, faith makes a decisive contribution to this.
  The fact is that each person, unlike all other living beings, understands the ruthlessness, indifference, slowness of nature, in which everything is built on mutual devouring, on the action of chance, determining its development and order in it.
  A person is afraid to live in such an oscillating world, but at the same time he is afraid of death, accompanied by the horror of the decomposition of the body.
  Therefore, he is filled with disgust for the surroundings, imagining himself as an angel fallen from somewhere, who must again return to this unknown, unknowable, but due world of immortality, peace and benevolence.
  It is in this form that any person interprets the information that fills him during his life, and this form especially affects the philistine, whose mind is not occupied with scientific and philosophical research.
  The philistine's aspiration for peace, kindness and well-being runs into troubles and unexpected influences that quite often fall on him from the outside, disrupting the usual order of his life, and he, willy-nilly, begins to dream of a certain world of peace, fair and happiness instead of the cruel everyday world of worries and anxieties.
  Naturally, the philistine can find this wonderful world only in dreams of his own transfer to some otherworldly place, since nothing like this happens here, and apparently cannot happen.
  After all, a person is not an animal and therefore can imagine anything, especially if circumstances force him to do so.
  Therefore, he decides that if he alone, unlike other living beings, is given the awareness of himself in time and action, then this gift was brought to him from above - from someone high, unattainable, incomprehensible, but omnipotent, all-pervading, omniscient, eternal and indestructible creator of everything that exists, so that, having suffered here, which is obviously necessary for the Almighty, he deservedly will return to his father there.
  Indeed, since the eternal happiness is impossible in this unstable and terrible world of mere survival and eventual death, but there is an understanding of this immutable fact, then this very understanding, which means a latent confession of oneself as different from everything else precisely as a result of the awareness of oneself in the world, inevitably leads a person to the confession of only a partial and temporary presence of him in reality, since self-awareness was given not by nature, closed in on itself, but by something or someone else. And this is proof of the presence of this other both in the other world and in each person, and the connection between them, which is designated by religion.
  So, faith becomes hope for everyone, although not everyone admits it, which distinguishes it, for example, from science with its obvious insufficiency.
  The emergence of morality means the translation of its norms into the transformation of the environment for the beneficial benefit of all, which can also serve to gain happiness and peace in the otherworldly.
  To a large extent, therefore, humanity is only engaged in construction and perestroika all the time, realizing that this is necessary not only for some benefit there, but most importantly - for the posthumous acquisition of what is not here and what must be earned one way or another.
  As a result, the world is changing, becoming more comfortable, cultivated, and people are more decent, acquiring even in some numbers a sense of self-esteem, and the otherworldly, remaining still mysterious and inaccessible, nevertheless affects the development of everything.
  In other words, the perception of information, even by the philistine, is not at all useless if it is ultimately based on faith, although not as effective as for the creative personalities.
  
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