International Journal on Minority and Group Rights. Том 10. 2003. С. 203-220
The present article examines the image in the structure of consciousness from the standpoint of cognitive science. The paper proves that consciousness is a universal category, causing interest among specialists in various fields. Consciousness has a multi-level structure, which is based on the image. The main characteristics of the image are visibility, brightness, clarity, fragmentation, differentiation, generalization, controllability, mobility.