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Philosophy of Conceptual Network Bernard Korzeniewski Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland Email: bernard.korzeniewski@ Received 17 August 2014; revised 15 September 2014; accepted 6 October 2014 Preface The article formulates the philosophy of a conceptual network and defines a concept as a unit of meaning. According to the proposed idea, the substance of our mind (subjective psyche) is consti- tuted by a conceptual network which is composed of continuous concepts which have meanings through connotation. The conceptual network is an epiphenomenon of the neural network that is based on a dynamic structure of a complex of neurons interconnected in a functional way. Lan- guage is a secondary phenomenon in relation to the conceptual network: the words of language correspond to the best-distinguished concepts, and their meaning is determined by their concep- tual “lining”. The conceptual networks of logic, mathematics and, especially, philosophy are not perfectly determined and specified. The “Absolute Truth” not only does not exist, but in fact it does not have any sense. (Self-)consciousness emerged as a result of recurrent self-reference of the neural/conceptual network. Keywords Concept Network, Meaning by Connotation, Language, Epistemology, Absolute Truth 1. The Absolute Truth The “absolute” truth is silence. If we decide to say anything more, we do so only to eventually return to the above statement, but keeping the memory of