From Uncertainty of Ignorance to Uncertainty of Science. Tractatus Scientifico-Philosophicus
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Influenced by the literature popularizing science, we are used to thinking that the interesting and unknown remains only somewhere beyond our planet. If we are interested in reading about the new discoveries concerning life on Earth, we are presented primarily with the findings of the creatures of the past, like dinosaurs, or the humanoids, which lived millions of years ago. When it comes to our time, it is believed that we would understand ourselves by studying behavior of the other species of animals, e.g., ants, dolphins, or chimpanzees. This book proposes a fundamentally different approach that is an exact opposite to the well-established views about the world in which we live and what is considered worthy of a scientific–philosophical study. The central subject of our study is us – the modern men and women, and our world. My professional experience as a physician and a cell biologist has taught me to consider the objects of my study directly. I believe that to understand ourselves, we should study ourselves – our health, our behavior, and our relationships. The object of my study is the modern individual with his everyday problems, needs, aspirations and concerns, rather than the populations or faceless masses. The same direct approach is used in this book for the study of our environment. To study the world in which we live we separated Our World (limited by the solar system, but primarily – the earthly one) from the Universe. Such a division is warranted, because our world is the one of Order, which is based upon and manifested by the existence of natural objects. I summarize that Existence is the central subject of my study. Its aim is to understand and explain how we exist. A.Y., Princeton, September 2001. Unplanned addition, September 12, 2001 The proposition 12.5.6, the last in this book, was written at 6 p.m., September 10th, 2001. Next day, a picture of the terrorist attack against the United States was transmitted on TV at 9 a.m. On the same day, the President declared war against terrorism throughout the World. Our World is not an abstract notion – it is the very place of our existence.
Existence is not an abstract notion – it is the fact itself that we exist. How we exist - depends on us.
"Tractatus Scientifico-Philosophicus" and the "How Man Exists" are the first scientific studies of the Existence. For the first time, the reader meets the ideas of Our world, of Existence of Man and other natural objects – animate and inanimate, and of the influence of knowledge on our behavior and relationships – all considered from the scientific point of view. As long as Man has existed, the problems of Existence (Being) have been considered from religious and philosophical points of view. But the scientific approach is necessary since only science explains "How". This is achieved through discovery of the underlying processes and mechanisms. Understanding "How" man and other natural objects, and the World as a whole exist, gives us a broad vision. When this vision becomes widespread, it helps us to understand the others and ourselves. It is a scientifically substantiated truth that the laws of existence described in this book are valid for each and every one of us. When this truth is understood, it becomes obvious that the ideas, which divide the humankind now, contradict the basics of human relationships. A.Y.
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In an amazingly brief format, the author presents a broad spectrum of new fundamental ideas about the world in which we live, existence of man, and the human relationships. In a display of unexpected ideas, the book separates Our world from the rest of the universe. This bold statement helps us to realize that the current views of the dominance of uncertainty and chaos are valid for the cosmic universe. While our world is characterized by Causality and Order, The order is based upon and is manifested by the Existence of natural objects. The new worldview described in this book advances knowledge in the areas of our immediate interest, such as health, behavior, and the human relationships. The book refutes the opinion that science has exhausted its capacities and opportunities for advancement. Progress in our understanding of the phenomena of Existence should promote renaissance in science as well as in philosophy, religion and art – the sources of knowledge in the sphere of the phenomena of Existence. The book is addressed to those who are interested in science, philosophy and education, and to the intellectuals independently of their profession or occupation. New thoroughly substantiated scientifico-philosophical Ideas establishing the Order of Reason, Morals and Law serve as a Guidance for every Human Individual in times when uncertainty and chaos approached their apogee.
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Dr. Alexander Yabrov is a physician and a scientist-experimenter specialised in virology and cell biology. He is an internationally-acknowledged expert on interferon and other cellular mechanisms regarding resistance to various damaging influences, such as infectious agents, carcinogens, radiation, et al. Born in Leningrad, Russia, he graduated from a leading medical school – the First Leningrad Medical Institute. After several years of practicing as an internist and infectionist, Dr. Yabrov obtained a doctorate in medical virology and then a D.Sc. degree in cell biology. For many years he was a Senior Scientist of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences at the Institute of Experimental Medicine, and then a Senior Scientist of the USSR Academy of Sciences at the Leningrad Institute of Nuclear Physics. Dr. Yabrov risked his career to apply for an exit visa, and after a very tense year left the USSR in 1974. He organized a clinical unit for the treatment of infected children with interferon in Rehovot, Israel, which is still functioning. Then he worked in Canada, where he wrote a book, entitled Interferon and Nonspecific Resistance, deemed the Best Book of the Year 1980 in the sphere of health by the American Publishers Association. Since 1979, Dr. Yabrov has worked in the United States as Director of research and Development of the National patent Development Corporation, New York, NY – New Brunswick, NJ. In the US he first organized the production of interferon on an industrial scale for clinical purposes. The initial studies on the anti-cancer effect of interferon approved by the FDA were performed using interferon produced by Dr. Yabrov. From 1980 to 1990, he held a position of a visiting research professor at Rutgers – the State University of New Jersey. Currently, Dr. Yabrov is a President of a bio-medical research and consulting Company - Princeton Bio Technologies, Ltd. – in Princeton, NJ. He is the author of over 100 scientific publications and 10 patents. In the US, Professor Yabrov developed a fundamental scientific Theory of Existence. In his recent book – How Man Exists (2001), which describes this new general theory, Dr. Yabrov introduced, among other things, a new classification of sciences. All the scientific knowledge is represented by the fundamental sciences of Motion, Origin and Existence. The Sciences of Existence include Physiology and Medicine, Biotechnology, Biology of existence of organisms, and the Social sciences. The book you are reading is centered primarily on the problems of individual behavior and human relationships.