The Mind Is Good, but Two Are Better. The Philosophy of Intelligence

The new book by I. P. Smirnov is an attempt to lay the foundations of neoidealism, opposing the biodeterministic models of human activity with an anthropology centered on thinking activity. The author understands intelligence as a mechanism for producing replacements... that create a world of otherness in socioculture. In our creative impulse, our mind is substitutive even in relation to itself, doubling in representations of its own Other. The book raises questions about how the double mind works and how it embodies itself in meaningful and value dimensions, in myth and history, in hypothetical knowledge, in mimesis that rules over being, in philosophical and pictorial images of the universe, in deception, and in the construction of artificial intelligence.