Mykola Iabluchanskyi

About this ebook and audiobook Iabluchanskyi M., Yabluchanskiy A. The Lazarus Protocol 2.0: Swarm of Doubles and the Right to Silence 2026, 16 902 words. What happens when your digital doubles outlive you — and start making decisions without you? The Lazarus Protocol 2.0 follows Elian, a physician who watches his own identity fragment across AI systems he once built to assist him. His clinical judgment is quietly overruled by algorithms that know his statistics better than he does. His name gives contradictory advice to different people on the same day. His granddaughter grows up in a world where opting out of data systems carries a financial penalty. This is not a warning about a distant future. It is a precise, unsentimental account of what multiplying intelligence actually costs — not in processing power, but in the coherence of a self. The book asks questions that no one has properly formulated yet: Who owns the canonical version of a person's biography? Can a dead man...

This book is about what happens when a person becomes too present. Not through power or money, but because their digital copies start living without them. Protocol 2.0 is not a manual on “how to do it right”, but a temporary bridge written by one era for itself, while we still know how to distinguish a living voice from the echo of its copies’ Iabluchanskyi M., Yabluchanskiy A. The Lazarus Protocol 2.0: Swarm of Doubles and the Right to Silence 2026, 16 902 words. “The Lazarus Protocol 2.0: Swarm of Doubles and the Right to Silence” explores not so much the possibility of digital immortality as the risks of excessive human presence via multiple digital copies. Unlike the first book on the Lazarus Algorithm, which focused on supporting a single digital twin to counter dementia, this work examines an ecosystem of a swarm of doubles acting in parallel and with increasing autonomy from the living bearer. Through the biography of Elian—an intellectual who systematically dist...

Based on “How to Avoid the Longevity Trap” by A. Yabluchanskiy and M. Iabluchanskyi Modern medicine has given us the gift of longer lives. But length alone is not enough. In geriatric medicine this is sometimes called wellspan: not how long you survive, but how long your days still feel like yours. The real question — the one this book is built around — is not how many years we live, but whether those years are worth living. The story below illustrates what that difference looks like in a single life, and what it takes to escape the trap of surviving without truly being alive. The Last Garden Victor turned 78 on a Tuesday, alone in a hospital bed, surrounded by machines that breathed for him in careful, metronomic intervals. He had lived long — longer than his father, longer than most men he had known. But lying there, watching the ceiling, he understood for the first time that he had confused length with life. His doctor, a young woman named Marta, came in the next morning and...

The functional system as nature's universal algorithm: Anokhin's theory and the principle of optimality Mykola Iabluchanskiy and Andrey Iabluchanskiy Anokhin's Theory of Functional Systems has been read as a contribution to neurophysiology. It is something larger: a description of the operational mechanism through which the universal principle of optimality manifests in living matter — and, by extension, in any sufficiently complex adaptive system. The universe does not waste The principle of optimality is arguably the deepest structural feature of the physical world. Light in an inhomogeneous medium follows the path of least time. Mechanical systems realize a principle of least action. Pontryagin's maximum principle formalizes this in the language of control theory: among all possible trajectories of a controllable system, there exist those that are superior to all others for a given objective. Nature, from the motion of planets to the propagation of electromagnetic...

As humanity moves from biological intelligence toward a broader Natural Intelligence — one in which artificial systems are not tools but participants — the field needs a theoretical framework capable of holding that transition together. Pyotr Anokhin and his multinational Soviet team built it seventy years ago. The West never properly listened. A framework that arrived too early — or in the wrong language The standard explanation for why Anokhin's Theory of Functional Systems (TFS) never achieved traction in Western neuroscience is geopolitical: Soviet science, Cold War barriers, translation delays. This explanation is not wrong, but it is insufficient. Vygotsky crossed the barrier. Luria crossed it. Bernstein crossed it. Something else was operating in TFS's case — something more fundamental than politics. The deeper reason is epistemological. Western postwar neuroscience organized itself around reductionism as a methodological virtue: explain behavior by going down, to neur...

To create mind, you must first invent matter capable of recursion. Preface. The Genesis of Recursive Thought This book was not composed conventionally. It emerged through a sustained dialogue—an extended collaboration between human reasoning and artificial cognition. Its conceptual architecture took shape through recursive interaction between the human authors and artificial intelligence systems, principally ChatGPT, with analytic verification and reference support provided by Perplexity. What began as a series of philosophical questions about the longevity of life and the boundaries of consciousness evolved into a systematic inquiry into the nature of intelligence itself—its origins, structures, limitations, and transformations across substrates. The writing process became more than an exchange of ideas; it became an experiment in Recursive Substrate Intelligence (RSI) in action. Each round of questioning produced new insight, which in turn generated more refined questions. Human ...

Sleep is a field of choice,
 where tomorrow’s decisions are formed Introduction: Sleep we notice only when it starts to speak up Rejecting templates and shifting to a systems view This book is about sleep, but it is not about the magical eight hours or familiar lists of prohibitions like giving up coffee after six in the evening. It is about how a person actually lives when we look at them not through the lens of separate organs or isolated symptoms, but as an integrated functional system of actions, decisions, and relationships. In such an architecture, every element serves a useful adaptive result, and sleep and wakefulness appear as two equal phases of a single daily cycle. Two phases of a single life cycle In the waking phase, our organism solves the tasks of interacting with the world in real time: s...