The fundamentals of the book studies (The review of the book “Neurobibliology: The first effort of the cognitive study” by V. P. Leonov)

The book [in Russian] comprises three chapters, i. e. “The book as a human innate program”, “The bibliology in search of the meanings: The book is an outer cognitome?”, “The bibliology and music as an outer cognitome and form of knowledge”, “On the reading neurobiology and “brain book”, “Neurphilosophy and neurobibliology: The problems at the interface of disciplines”, “On the interdisciplinarity of bibliology: From Bibliologos to Neurobibliology”, and “Neurbibliology as the interdisciplinary studies of the book and cognitive processes”.

The reviewer dissects and analyzes the key provisions of the book. The assumption that “the book is the human innate program” contradicts to the speech evolutionary descent theory and to the practice. The documentology also answers to the question surprisingly mysterious to the book author (“what are the origins of the writing?”) – the sound is a sign and “represents” the thought. It is impossible to preserve the initial meaning for the long time so the appropriate equivalent had to be found in the form of the letters as the transformed sound signs, or the code.

Further, V. Leonov develops the concept of the book as an outer cognitome, i. e. the element of integrated biomedical, technological, and existential – brain cognitive power which makes him to view the bibliology on the conjunction of neurosciences and the humanities. The theory of cognitive systems has to become the methodological foundation of the bibliology and bibliography, and the Russian Academy of Sciences needs an interdisciplinary analytic center for studies of the book phenomenon. The author suggests the term “bibliology of neurosciences” for the new discipline. Besides, he suggests that a new interdisciplinary science of cognitology has to integrate psychology, computer science, linguistics, anthropology, neuroscience, philosophy, pedagogy, bibliology, and bibliography in the aspect of knowledge. The cognitome is the innate cognitome while the book is an outer cognitome. This interpretation coincides with that of K. Popper’s three worlds, one of which is the world of “products of thought”, the objects in their own right. The reference to this concept would significantly strengthen Leonov’s hand.

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