Intelligence and the «mystery» of logico-computational fetishism

The article is devoted to the criticism of the logico-computational fetishism in relation to human intelligence, which exaggerates some of the aspects of intelligence, while leveling others. As a result, a distorted image of intelligence displaces its real essence.The first foundation of this fetishism is a tradition of logocentrism, which reduces all the diversity of mental life to cognition, while, in turn, reducing cognition to logical reasoning. Consideration of logic as an autonomous basis for the cognitive led to the idea of taking it beyond the subject. Computationalism is derived from logocentrism since machine computing is based on objectified principles of logic. Machine computing is an alienated image of full-fledged human- dimensional computation, which has become a normative model due to conceptual aberration.The second foundation is a distorted idea of natural intelligence itself. Its conceptual rehabilitation is expected, this supposed to involve, firstly, enriching the concept of cognition, demonstrating its intertwining with other mental phenomena, and, secondly, the abolition of the exclusive binding of intelligence to it. The polymorphic nature of intelligence is shown, the core of which is the structuring of human interaction with reality through the setting and achievement of goals, mastering new knowledge and skills, building complex trajectories of activity. Due to its polyfunctionality, intelligence turns out to be an integral entity involving different modalities of not only thinking but also other processes (sensory, emotional, affective, motor ones), many of which are distanced from the «gravitational center» of ratio. Intelligence is not an internalized phenomenon of the psyche alone: where necessary, intelligence reveals itself externally, connecting consciousness with praxis, and it can be described as a living and flexible embodiment of human contact with the world, others, and self.