ABSTRACT
Discovering the principles of organization of behaviour, based on experience accumulated by an individual, and the laws governing the formation of such experience is a multidisciplinary task. This general problem poses the majority of the specific questions of psychology, neurosciences, developmental biology, and genetics. At the same time, the solution of the general problem can be based only on synthesis of the achievements of a wide range of disciplines. Such synthesis is hampered by obstacles resulting from attempts to create a unified description from diverse data relating to humans and animals, of an individual synapse, or a neurone, or a whole organism, complex unlocalized mental processes and local physiological phenomena. The aim of the present article is to suggest a system of views, based on the literature and our own experimental data, within the framework of which such obstacles may be overcome.
