the future: "What is not developing does not live, but what does not live, is
dying". The Postface asserts that consciousness is the primary manifestation
of advanced forms of matter.
Dialectics of Matter is a systemic approach to the
fundamentals of philosophy. It takes a question, which has always puzzled scientists -
why have we evolved? - and solves it by thought. It does this by invoking the concept
of quality, as a property of matter, to explain the many changes that have taken place
since the dawn of the Universe.
The book is a fascinating complement to the knowledge of
all those interested in the Big Bang or Darwinism. So much of science concentrates on
how things happen, as if the deduction of the mechanism alone can provide the
whole story. This is a book that fills a gap, by providing a coherent logical theory
for why evolution has taken place. The book will find a market with the many
scientists who have pondered over the deeper meanings of the Second Law of
Thermodynamics.
The Dialectics of Matter is written with the layman
in mind. Igor Kondrashin is clearly a master of philosophy and science, who knows that
his readership will be less knowledgeable of both. Therefore, he has used few long words
and little jargon. Everything is explained in simple language and the important facts
are repeated enough times and in as many diverse ways as are necessary to penetrate the
most unfamiliar of minds. Overall, the language is that of a learned author, who is
trying to teach and share his knowledge, rather than show off and confuse. There is also
some maths in the book, but it never gets beyond simple equations, and it certainly never
gets frightening. The book is nicely organised as well; making full use of everything a
modern word-processor has to offer. There are changes of typeface and several unusual
characters to please the eye in this very attractive document.
The book has many impressive passages and a couple deserves
special commendation. Firstly, the description of the lower levels of matter is an
excellent piece of writing. Quarks, electrons, Pi-mesons, gluons, etc. can get very
complicated and confusing. The author has judged his treatment of this subject perfectly:
to have said more would have been confusing; to say less would not have been telling the
whole story. I would recommend these chapters to anybody studying science. Secondly, I
found the idea that evolution is driven by motion-in-quality particularly profound with
respect to the formation of the large molecules necessary for life. This is one of the
stumbling blocks in conventional Darwinist theory, as it seems too unlikely. The
treatment of the subject in this book makes it seem as though the formation of DNA
had to happen.
By treating advanced science alongside groundbreaking
philosophy, Dialectics of Matter is an admirable book for the breadth of its
subject material. It starts by mentioning Einstein alongside Marx, and continues in
this vein, drawing on the best of both disciplines. The book covers the whole history
of the universe, from the vibration-free vacuum, which started it all off, to the
future, which occupies so much of man's thoughts. We do not quite learn the Meaning
of Life here, but we come quite close!
Dialectics of Matter is a well thought out and
successful combination of science and philosophy. It is a serious, yet accessible
book, and I am certain it is viable for reading by everyone.
Dr. Graham G. Almond
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[ Introduction ]
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Igor I. Kondrashin Dialectics of Matter |
Postface
So, the historic dispute between various philosophic schools
about what is primary - Matter or Consciousness - by the logic of Dialectics of Matter is
reduced to the obvious truth, that Consciousness, having appeared at a certain stage in
the process of the progress of Mind, constitutes a psychical manifestation of the highest
organic forms of Matter, and is their attribute exactly as electromagnetic fields are an
attribute of physical formations of Matter. Together with further evolutionary development
of the highest forms of Matter the progress of Consciousness will continue as well, so it
is possible to assert safely that in the future Consciousness will be more introspective
than in the past. Thanks to the logic of the Dialectics numerous versions become groundless
with regard to a possibility of migration of the soul or spirit from one body into another
like fng. units are moving from one fnl. cell into another, and also about the immortality
of the soul. Being a manifestation of the highest forms of Matter, the Consciousness itself
is an inalienable element of Matter at a certain stage of its Evolution. It cannot be
detached from the highest material forms - the ensembles of neurones of the cerebrum of
concrete individuals - to soar independently in the Earth's atmosphere, in the outer space
or somewhere else, and vanish with their destruction. Only the Social Consciousness as well
as the Supermind is capable of existing continuously exactly so long, how long Humanity as
a whole, alternating generation by generation, will manage to extend its existence.
The scientific researches in various spheres of knowledge have
been ripened long ago to the necessity of merging the organisational completeness of the
systemic-structural synthesis with the dynamism of the dialectical materialism. In the
present work the beginning of this process is laid down, though the description of the
main stages and general questions of the Dialectics of Matter as well as the reflection
of the present-day architectonics of its systemic levels is made in the most condensed
form. Exactly because of this the Part I of DIALECTICS of MATTER has the name
Systemic Approach to Fundamentals of Matter, meaning that in this work only
fundamental theoretical generalizations are made. It is intended that a more detailed
concretisation of some broached questions will be accomplished in further parts of the
work - Dialectics of Mind and Consciousness, Dialectics of Labour and
Dialectics of Geosystem, in which it is possible to study in more detail such
questions important for Humanity as the keeping of the social homeostasis and the increase
of the productive force of functioning, but first of all the final formation of the
noosphere, the increase of efficiency and effectiveness of its influence on the further
living of the world Society.
One way or another, but the theoretical division of the
evolutionary development of Matter, realised in this work, into motions in specific
categories with the addition and singling out of the motion in the category quality
reveals in many aspects the source of its Evolution as well as the causality of events
occurring around us.
The scientific discoveries that have confirmed with the help of
experiments the facts of existence of anti-substance, gave ground to visionaries' minds
to speak about far away anti-worlds. But as it follows from our study, the anti-world is
located not on the opposite side of the Universe, its elements we can detect every day
here on the Earth, near each of us in the phenomena of hunger, thirst, asphyxia, deficit
and so on. And exactly with the manifestations of the anti-world we have to carry out the
every day struggle, neutralising its permanently growing negative potential, which is
dispersing into prosy fnl. cell of various structural levels, from microsystemic until
now already the superhypersystemic one. These invisible as if a vacuum fnl. cells attract
constantly to their bosom material formations - fng. units (quarks, atoms, molecules,
organic cells, people and so on), fit for implementation of their specific set of
algorithms. Therefore considering, for example, at the level K such an elementary
component of some hyperorganism as 'the head of a department, Mr. Smith', we should
clearly realise, that in this notion two different categories of Matter are combined
simultaneously:
a) a fnl. cell of an ideal 'head of a department',
having a specific set of algorithms and
b) a concrete individual 'Mr. Smith' with all his
advantages and imperfections really functioning in it.
Only on the fnl. abilities of the personified highest signal
subsystem of the cerebrum of 'Mr. Smith' it depends, whether the algorithms of the given
fnl. cell are being implemented correctly. If, for example, owing to his individual
phenogenodevelopment exactly those associative centres of the cortex turn out to be
insufficiently developed, which are responsible for the precise fulfilment of the
algorithms of the fnl. cell of 'the head (of the given) department', then he proves to
be a surrogate fng. unit for this fnl. cell. Being actually filled with Mr. Smith, in
practice it is remaining unfilled, increasing by that the negative systemic potential of
the given hyperorganism. Therefore it is necessary immediately to replace Mr. Smith in
the given fnl. cell by a more functionally able Mr. Brown, as a result of which, if it
is made correctly, the negative systemic potential ought to come down. Mr. Smith, after
the definition of his fnl. abilities, should be placed into a fnl. cell corresponding to
him. Thus, one of the most principal aspects of the systemic organising consists exactly
in the correct combining of two absolutely diverse elements of all organisational levels
of Matter: an ideal functional cell - a real functioning unit. The misunderstanding of
this, as the practice shows, leads in the upshot to systemic shake ups of various
strengths.
The leaving of functionally significant cells to be unfilled
always causes the growing of the negative potential of a system. This factor, in
particular, fng. units in hyperorganisms of the third type being on strike use for
a long time in their struggle, forcing fng. units in fnl. cells of the administration
of appropriate production or other structures to take more rapidly these or those
organisational decisions.
There is no doubt that the attainment of hyperorganisms' optimal
structure takes a decisive part in the present-day phase of the integrating process of
hypersystems and superhypersystems' development. In this connection already now it is
necessary to effect approximate calculations of the coefficient of fnl. efficiency of
systemic organisation (Kf.e.s.o.) of the principal states in order to know at
least, how it is possible to help those, which are behind, to move up to the level of the
advanced. Therefore it is so important to have also in each country specialised organs
responsible for the growing of its Kf.e.s.o. in conformity with peculiarities
of local conditions and bearing in mind specific character of the problems existing over
there. The coordination of these organs ought to be effected at the superhypersystemic
(that is at the overstate) level.
At all levels first of all appropriate specialists are needed
for these purposes as well as specialised instructions which ought to be worked out with
modern methodologies on correct picking and placing of personnel, taking into consideration
phenogenotypical peculiarities of individuals, determining their ability to function in
this or that fnl. cell of this or that structural pyramid. It is necessary also to work
out and introduce into practice a complete list of psychophysiological test estimations
of the highest signal subsystems of the cerebrum, by which it is possible to form an
opinion about the professional, work and intellectual abilities of any person. Specialists
should be engaged for a long time in this definition and appropriate marks ought to be put
periodically into a special document (after leaving school, on graduating from university,
before acceptance for a job, just every five years). Statistical generalisation of similar
marks would allow us to judge, which share in each country individuals phenogenetically
of the highest, medium and lowest categories occupy, that in its turn would give an
opportunity to insert appropriate corrections into revealed tendencies in the development
of this or that superhyperorganism.
In special higher educational institutions or at specialised
faculties numerous specialists are to be prepared, who later will work in personnel
departments of all the production and administrative hyperorganisms and carry out the
filling of their ideal staves - fnl. cells with real personnel - fng. units. Among them
there should be obligatorily, for example, professional psychologists on personnel. At
every course the students of institutes and colleges should study peculiarities of
correspondence of personnel to the appointments they are holding, in order to avoid
situations in which the salary being paid to them will not become a direct loss for both
a given enterprise and the state as a whole, not counting indirect much bigger losses from
their functional inactivity. All fnl. cells should have a specified enumeration of fnl.
algorithms and for that somebody should make them renovate regularly and check their
implementation. It is clear, that on a proper algorithmation of all fnl. cells the
productivity of our work depends on many respects. Somebody should also be engaged in
the counting and comparison of the aggregate and personified balance of time of active
functioning in fnl. cells of production, scientific-research and administrative
hyperorganisms.
All these and many other questions long ago became archtopical
for that part of the hypersystemic organisation, which intends to be up to the present-day
level of the development of our epoch. And replies to them it is possible to find only
with the help of Dialectics of Matter, reasonably using the regularities being traced
through it. Moreover, the Dialectics of Matter can become the most severe weapon against
the most dangerous social disease of the twentieth century - the functional mimicry as
well as against those who obtain their personal well-being at the expense of the state,
society or mankind as a whole.
The hypersystemic organisation is not an extraordinary act and
even not an episodic activity, but the permanent labour-intensive process, carried out on
a strictly scientific base by organisers phenogenetically capable of that. K. Marx once in
the first volume of his Das Kapital noted that the worst architect differs from the
best bee, that before the construction of a building he already has its project in his
mind.
All of us are either a witness, a participant, a leader or an
opponent (depending on the activity of every man, his phenogenetical capabilities and on
what exactly fnl. cell on the structural vertical he occupies) of the construction (the
constant process of all-systemic organisation and reorganisation) of the World Society,
constituting already for a long time a single high-integrated developing
extrasuperhypersystem.
Its structure (project) ought to be revised critically taking
into consideration the most up-to-date knowledge, renovated permanently on the basis of
subsequent scientific discoveries and introduced everywhere without delay. Coming from
the fact that the UNO by the opinion of many has fulfilled its function on the whole and
the efficiency of its activity is coming down gradually, it seems expedient to replace it
by a new leading organ, which will be guiding the World Society by the improved pattern
and likeness of the present governing body of the European Union with similar, and later
even higher requirements to the countries-participants and obligations from their side.
At the same time in their activity, as we mentioned already, it will be leaning on the
Supreme Council of Experts and act coming from both the perspective prognoses of the
evolution of Humanity and current interests of the present generation, which nevertheless
should coincide with the long-term targets of our Civilisation.
Nobody should consider the above theoretical scheme
only as some next in turn model, constituting certain aspects of our reality in
a dialectical-materialist interpretation. On the contrary, it should serve as an
appeal to all thinking people to begin active intelligent action in order to
perfect the all-systemic organisation of the Human Society until it exposes
itself yet to self-destruction.
That which was topical YESTERDAY, has become more topical
TODAY and, without any doubt, will become even more topical TOMORROW. Time does
not wait, it is impossible to stop it. It advances inexorably at the rate of 24 hours
per day and with every passing day these 24 hours from our FUTURE are transferring to
our irrevocable PAST.
"TEMPORA MUTANTUR, ET NOS MUTANTUR IN ILLIS"
- Times are changing, and we are changing with them. (Lat.)
Therefore our mission, that is the mission of that part of
the present-day HUMAN GENERATION, which is considering themselves thinking
(and who is thinking indeed) - to comprehend the Laws of the DIALECTICS of MATTER
and act in a maximum correspondence with them.
Cairo - Moscow - Athens 1981 - 1995
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