About the book: 2017 / The book is an expanded and revised edition of “Aesthetic Epistemology”, published in 2015 by Palmarium Academic Publishing (Saarbrücken) and the Academy Publishing House (Moscow). The work analyzes approaches to the construction of an aesthetic theory of knowledge, the problem of the relationship between aesthetic and cognitive attitudes to the world, examines the indelible reality of aesthetic knowledge in life, and reveals how the aesthetic property of the knowing mind manifests itself in the cybernetics of consciousness and artificial intelligence. The scope of the study includes a plot that contributes to the understanding of how philosophy - this methodology of the soul, on the one hand, and art, on the other, sculpt the truth, how artistic and philosophical formations become productive structures, how these cultural formations strengthen the relief form of both what there is also augmented reality. Cognition and aesthetic action, posited in aporetics, are affirmed together to determine the intellectual work.