Modern science about the phenomenon of consciousness

Abstract. In this article, the author examines one of the most important issues of existence - the nature of human consciousness. The author strives to approach this problem extremely objectively, considering various, even opposing, concepts of scientists of the past and present. Expresses his position on the issue of the phenomenon of consciousness, leads experiments to identify the nature of distant (telepathic) communication, i.e. transmissions over distances carried out with his participation, and finally, he gives his own hypothesis about the nature of the irrational.