Mykola Iabluchanskyi

About forty years ago, when I was in my thirties, my wife and I went on vacation with our friends. Two families, two couples, four children. One house. One kitchen. One fridge. From the outside, everything looked the same. We cooked together, sat at the same table, shared the same dishes. But inside our bodies, completely different stories were unfolding. I have always had a tendency to gain weight easily. I eat carefully, not much, not very often, yet my body stores energy quickly. When I relax my control, the scale reacts very fast. The husband in the other family was the opposite. He was slim, even thin, and his appetite seemed endless. He ate large portions, ate more frequently than I did, and often visited the fridge at night. At first, my wife looked at me, then at him, and said: “You see? You should learn from him.” But after some days of living together, she saw the numbers more clearly. I ate little and rarely. He ate a lot and often. Sometimes she would wake up at night and s...

  In this discussion, " optimality " carries none of the usual philosophical baggage. It does not invoke a hidden cosmic purpose, an ethical ideal, or a poetic metaphor for perfection. It names something more austere and more interesting: a recurring structural pattern observable across radically different classes of systems. Wherever many possible states exist alongside strict constraints, reality does not populate that space chaotically. Instead, it maintains only certain configurations — those that prove relatively stable, reproducible, and economical under given conditions. The Principle of Optimality appears not as an external command imposed on matter, but as the inner logic of matter's self-organization. Three Stages of Realization This principle manifests across three stages, tracing a path from fundamental physics to conscious control. At the physical level, optimality is the very form in which natural laws are written, with system trajectories determined by the...

The world as we knew it has exhausted the limits of its controllability. We find ourselves at the point of the " Great Assembly "—a moment of phase transition where biological evolution, planetary ecology, and artificial intelligence merge into a single Hypersystem of Natural Intelligence. This book is not merely another description of technology. It offers an architectural blueprint for our shared future—a model in which Mind is viewed as a fundamental element of the Universe's stability. Natural Intelligence and the Symphony of Intelligences In our previous works, we proposed the concept of Natural Intelligence. We regard it not as a "competitor" to biological intelligence, but as its next, higher iteration: a state in which the biological experience accumulated over billions of years of evolution and the computational power of modern algorithms form a unified Symphony of Intelligences—a cohesive continuum spanning from cellular cycles to future planetary hyp...

In any medical encounter, two dynamics are always present: an asymmetry of power , and the constant risk of what that asymmetry can become. We rarely speak plainly about this. But if we want to understand why so many clinical relationships go wrong — not dramatically, not with malice, but quietly and structurally — we need to look honestly at the positions people slide into under pressure. The words "victim" and "predator" carry heavy moral weight. Used carelessly, they assign permanent identities: the evil doctor, the helpless patient, the corrupt institution. That is not what these words mean here. A predatory position is one in which a person uses power, knowledge, or institutional backing in ways that disregard someone else's dignity. A victim position is one centered on helplessness — on being acted upon, on having no agency, on being owed rather than responsible. Both are positions people move through. Neither is a fixed character trait. How the Slide H...