Mykola Iabluchanskyi

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...

Bridging the clinical and the visionary Welcome to this updated platform. For decades, my work has been rooted in classical medical research, focusing on cardiology and the optimization of human health. Today, that journey evolves. In partnership with Andriy and Anna Yabluchanska, we are expanding our focus toward the upcoming era of artificial cognition, digital twins, and the ecological management of life. The Theory of Functional Systems Our current research applies the Theory of Functional Systems to the management of human life in a rapidly changing technological landscape. We are exploring how intelligence—both natural and artificial—organizes itself to achieve optimal states of well-being. This platform will serve as a living document of our ongoing work, including the development of The Lazarus Protocol 2.0 and the architectural mapping of the Bio-Digital Noosphere. A legacy of optimality While we look toward the future, we remain grounded in the search for optimality. Ou...