Conclusion

Abstract

The information theory of emotions, put forth and experimentally supported in the preceding chapters, belongs to the Pavlovian direction in the science on the activity of the brain. Founded by Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, the science of higher nervous (psychic) activity is neither traditional physiology of the brain nor psychology, since it represents a qualitatively new area of knowledge based on a systemic approach to the psyche and behavior. In essence, this approach consists of an attempt to encompass both sides of the psyche: its neurophysiological mechanisms and its reflective-regulatory functions, its interdependence with the needs of the organism (personality) and with the surrounding world. This is why the information theory of emotions was productive equally for the study of the physiology of the brain and for the analysis of a number of complex problems of general psychology.