Modern cognitive science understands consciousness as a high-level state of information systems. The comparison of the attributive and functional approaches to understanding
the genetic status of information shows that the functional approach does not agree with the principle of epistemological comprehensiveness of physics and the principle of causal closure of the physical world. The attributive approach, on the contrary, is consistent with these fundamental principles, on which all modern natural science is based. However, it needs to justify the ontological unity of energy and information at the most elementary levels of material existence. The paper presents two arguments to this end: the argument from the absence of identity and the quantum mechanical argument. The final part of the article traces the heuristic possibilities of the attributive concept of information for incorporation of mental phenomena, which are not reduced to physical processes, into the scientific picture of the world.
Key words: information, attributive theory of information, consciousness, quantum
mechanics.
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