The paper deals with the phenomenon of «excessive consciousness», which was first described in the work of Fyodor Dostoevsky «Notes from the Underground». It is shown that the distinctive feature of «excessive consciousness» is the suppression of the human mind by it, as a goal-setting «center». As a result of this suppression, the phenomenon of «infinite multiplication» of any goal declared by the mind arises in the interval between the mirrors of «I» and «not-I». The inability to make a choice leads to what I call «syneidofreniya» (gr. Συνείδηση - means «consciousness» and gr. Φρήν - means «mind») - a mental illness in which «excessive consciousness» suppresses the target and synthetic work of the mind. It is also shown that the history of European philosophy (culture) has always been faced to a choice between two dominant lines of thought: 1) «Socratism», which believed that the answer to the question «Who is man?» should refer to the «mirror of consciousness», using the maxim «Know yourself» and 2) «Platonism», which believed that the answer to this question should be addressed to the «mirror of the cosmos». In addition, it is noted that the analysis of the emergence of consciousness associated with the birth of a «non-I» from the «I» leads to 1) the lack of control over the «non-I»; 2) the pseudo-paradox and 3) the reduction of the «non-I» ad infinitum. The paper also demonstrates that in the conditions of the emergence of cyberspace, «syneidofreniya» takes the form of «Inet-syneidofreniya», in which the role of «non-I» is performed by an anonymous (non-anonymous) network community. In the conditions of domination of the «mirror of the net- worked consciousness», the dependent individual becomes fully controllable. Despite the obvious turn in modern philosophy to the «mirror of consciousness», the positive way to the «mirror of the cosmos» is still open.

One of the key concepts of the multiagent systems (MAS) theory is that of ‘swarm intelligence’ that pictures intelligence as an emergent interactive effect of a set of rational agents. Therefore, the concepts of MAS are of great methodological and heuristic significance for philosophy. But philosophy also makes a significant contribution to the MAS theory: the theory of speech acts, the concept of implicature, and other philosophical concepts are successfully operationalized on the distributed systems of rational agents. All of this supports a hypernet theory of consciousness, according to which consciousness is the emergent effect not only of the network of brain neurons, but also of the social hypernet.

In the process of philosophical comprehension of the modern realities of the development of infocommunication technologies, the author raises the question of the legitimacy of the idea of man as the apex of evolution. This is not a new, but topical philosophical question about the interaction of man and machine, which sounded like the question of the place and role of technology in human life, but today transformed into a question about the place and role of man in the world of techniques. If artificial intelligence is capable of finding solutions based on creative approaches and intuitive decisions; the huge niche allocated to human reason in the highest sense is called into question. Would intelligent machines replace the human mind in its role as a creator of technology? What niches will remain for the human mind? Perhaps we will keep the priority in formulating general questions, and this is the main task of the philosopher. As the development of technologies is extremely accelerated, and the milestones of the progress of infocommunication technologies are fixed incomparably more often, it becomes necessary to comprehend the new reality that has arisen as a result of these achievements. At the same time, the necessity for such comprehension becomes permanent.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the possibility of creative processes in neural networks of artificial intelligence (AI). Based on the study of the features of the functioning of modern artificial networks, the thesis is substantiated that they can participate at certain stages in the creative process as independent actors. The creative process is considered to include the stages of detection and composition, while the latter in artificial neural networks passes as a choice of known algoritmic combinations for building a new object. The article explores the possibilities of AI neural networks and identifies the advantages of human creativity as a source of new knowledge about the world.