What is awareness and what advantages does it provide? Where does consciousness come from in the psyche and how does it develop there? Is everything that seems to us aware of is such? To what extent can the conscious be considered reliable? Does consciousness have an internal structure and can it measure it? Does all people have the consciousness the same way? What do we mean by “expanding consciousness”? How will a person’s consciousness change in the future?

It seems that all civilized methods for updating the power elite in Russia are closed. A tough selection system for loyalty is built in the army and in the civil service, there are no trade unions, the party is fictitious, the creation of NPOs is unbearable, and the financing of any social activity under an unspoken, but a very clear ban. Mass federal media lose the remnants of objectivity. Elections without observation are falsified, the administrative resource is applied in full.

The British government introduces the so -called Islamic index on the London Stock Exchange. In addition, the office of the Prime Minister announced the release of Islamic bonds. This index will be assigned to companies that meet the traditional Islamic principles of investment, reports Reuters . So, Muslim financial principles imply a ban on interest payment - so investors receive only fixed profits.

Photo: Reuters The world press with some surprise reported that in January of this year, a ski resort was opening in North Korea on the passage pass. This bewilderment can be understood: the DPRK is perceived by few as Far Eastern Switzerland. But if Western journalists regularly read the North Korean press, their surprise would be much more. Over the past year, the construction of a ski resort on the passage pass is served by state propaganda in the DPRK as the main construction of the country.

The other day, the British Open Knowledge Foundation (Open Knowledge Foundation) published the index of the most public countries, that is, those that are more often than others provide data (The Most Open-Data-Friedly Countries). When evaluating, criteria such as the openness of information on budget and expenses, election results, etc. were taken into account. Great Britain (940 points) and the USA (870) lead in the list. Russia was in 30th place (425), which is not yet quite catastrophic.

Motorola announced work on the modular smartphone Project Ara . Rather, this is not a separate device that can be assembled from cubes to your taste, but a whole open platform of prefabricated gadgets running Android, over which the company's engineers have been working for a year.

Google is preparing for the mass production of its own smart watches, reports Wall Street Journal. The company almost completed the development of a wearable gadget and is now in negotiations with the Asian suppliers of components in order to start launch in a few months. Smart Watches will work under Android and will be able to interact with other devices.

On September 24, the Smart Moscow lecture at the Turgenev library named after Turgenev, a lecture by Maxim Deputatov, a specialist in the history of the Moscow metro. The expert spoke about the underground rivers of the capital, as well as about the very principle of the construction of collectors and the history of such communications. We all know that the pipe area is named after the pipe in which the Neglink River flows, but do you know that the real pipe appeared there under Catherine II?

38% Children in the USA begin to use gadgets before they say, American researchers found out . Moreover, since 2011, the number of such children has increased four times! Two-year-old kids spend about an hour to watch a TV, a computer, a tablet and a mobile phone, children from two to four years old- almost two hours, and five to eight-year-olds- almost two and a half hours. The opinions of Russians, whether it is worth translating the clock twice a year, are noticeably divided .

Light plays a huge role for our brain, it is it that stimulates its work when it is necessary (and nature believes that this is needed during the day), increases our activity and mood and helps to cope with many cognitive tasks. The study published in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience established unexpected: it turned out that the brain could see light, even despite blindness. This hypothesis was proved on the example of three absolutely blind patients.

The representative of St. Petersburg in the Council of People's Commissars, a member of the Supreme Council of United Russia Vadim Tulipanov suddenly defended one of the defendants detained on the ship GreenPece Arctic Sunrise. A photographer Denis Sinyakov fell under the guardianship of United Russia. According to RIA Novosti, Tyulpanov asked the head of the Prosecutor General of Yuri Chaika to check the legality of his stay under the investigation.

Chechen historians have begun work on a single history textbook, the press service of the Republican Ministry of Education reports. Local specialists have already had several questions, for example, to formulations.

Good news: according to ITAR-TASS, Apple will soon open access to 4G networks for the iPhone 5s and 5C. The last smartphones of the company theoretically support domestic frequencies, but so far it is impossible to use a quick mobile Internet in Russia. Apple artificially limits access at the program level and tests each individual operator to avoid negative experience from using LTE networks.

The chairman of the Committee on Security and Combating Corruption, Irina Yarovaya, introduced an expanded package of anti -corruption amendments to the State Duma, writes Vedomosti. Yarovaya presented the first version in the summer: the concept of “corruption crime” and the article “Theft of budget funds” appeared (it threatens more severe punishment than for the usual theft).

The Ka-52 combat helicopter crashed in the Moscow district of Zhulebino. According to agencies, the emergency occurred on Zavalolnaya Street. After the fall, the helicopter caught fire, after which two explosions thundered - most likely, the fuel tanks were detonated, one of the eyewitnesses told Interfax. The helicopter, the agency’s source in emergency services told, flew from the Military airfield “Chkalovsky” to the Punki site in the Lyubertsy area, thus almost reached the destination.