15 SENSOR ASSOCIATED PROCESSES

In the XVII century. Following G. Galileo, the study of two categories of qualities - primary (objective) and secondary (not inherent to objects as such, but appearing when they affect an organ) - is actively supported by R. Descartes, T. Hobbes, D. Locke. It was a prerequisite for the concept of feelings (perceptions), which was called "causal."

The strength of this concept was the collapse of the theory of "spices", "types", "forms" of objects, perceived by the senses by the organ that was predominant in scholasticism. At present, scholastic interpretation has replaced the experimentally controlled general relationship between motive and effect: sensation (perception) is the effect produced by an external object in the physical mechanism.

In accordance with the concept of T. Hobbes “the so-called sensory qualities are only various movements of matter,” and since “movement produces only movement,” nothing appears in the body it affects but the movements of qualityless particles. From this it follows that the sensation is something apparent. It is illusory in its own individual image, but really as a process in the body that has an external motive.

The distinction between primary and secondary qualities, adopted by G. Galileo, R. Descartes and other scientists, gained considerable fame in Europe, thanks to the work of D. Locke "Experience ..".

The interpretation of a large group of perceived qualities as secondary had as its premise a mechanistic view of the relationship between things and the senses. Overcoming the mechanistic view of the ratio, believing that in each monad is displayed with a diverse level of clarity and adequacy of the existence of the entire Universe, G. Leibniz tried to find a solution to the problem of primary and secondary qualities different from what prevailed in his time. And again, the starting point for him was the physical and mathematical interpretation of mental activity.

G. Leibniz for the first time applied the idea of ​​isomorphism in psychological interpretation, which revealed to modern psychology new perspectives of deterministic analysis.

The connection of judgments is twofold. At times it is ordered by purpose, but sometimes it is not bound by any specific intention.

But neither R. Descartes, nor T. Hobbes, nor B. Spinoza — the real creators of the automatic association scheme — have yet found a suitable term for it.

Thus, in accordance with the associative theories of the XVII century. it is not the soul that creates associations, but, according to the general laws of mechanics, they are formed into a series of physical phenomena, understood as spiritual. But the association has not yet acquired the status of a total category, which it was designated in the middle of the XVIII century. In the XVII century. it was planned that the behavior regulated by it is not combined with the truly rational one.