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DEFINITIONS

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  • Collective Consciousness

    I understand it as the dominant knowledge, beliefs and points of view within a community, which shape the attitude of the majority of society toward a given problem.

  • Communication Ether

    I understand it as a network of all possible routes of information flow between people; it is formed by both:
  • mass media (alongside books, the press, radio and television,
    • including online news portals and even browsers such as Google and Edge),
  • as well as various forms of electronic audiovisual and text transmission (e.g. Twitter, YouTube, WhatsApp, Messenger, SMS)
  • and direct oral forms of communication (e.g. conversations, lectures, speeches).

  • Complex Issue

    a matter concerning a problem important to a large community of people, which can be viewed from many scientific aspects and reference points existing in social consciousness, and whose analysis must proceed in multiple stages.

  • Complex Question

    a question that cannot be answered directly; one must first carry out a logical analysis consisting of answers to several, a dozen, or even several dozen simple questions. Only answers to the necessary simple questions (in other words, elementary questions) make it possible to answer the Complex Question.

  • Core Aspects in IAI

    clearly distinguishable areas of public discourse concerning the Complex Issue.