PSYCHOPHYSICS AS NEw PRIORITY IN MOdERN SCIENCE

-11The work you are holding in your hands now is somehow epochal. It is itching to seal the cover with the stamp of «XXI century». Of course, main facts set forth therein were known much earlier. But they were scattered in hundreds and thousands of inaccessible publications, but above all their combinatorics, interpretation and understanding looked differently and added up to a tough as Procrustean bed alternative of “either – or”, of course, in favor of scientific approach and to the prejudice of naïve and old-fashioned popular illusions. Nowadays, when mankind has stepped with one leg into the information age, its previous views on the world and itself therein are undergoing serious correction exceeding all previous intellectual revolutions in the scopes and consequences. A phantom longing for recent perception of the customary and comfortable as worn-in shoes visual environment, genome decoding unwittingly reminding atomism of Democritus can not hide the fact that psychology of virtual realities, logic of nonlinear processes, philosophy of unstable states, hybrid structures and composite scientific disciplines are currently getting out to the field of knowledge. Active formation of natural and related thereto abstract sciences is taking place as a new philosophy of invisible. The things that seemed to dissipate upon approaching to the “scalpel” of impartial scientific arguments unexpectedly start merging therewith creating a detonating mixture of new consciousness and information civilization. We have to do V. Nesterov’s creative impudence due honors as his uncommon work is in the course of growing tendencies. The author of this fascinating work can be reasonably referred to representatives of so called deviant science – deviating from conventional orthodox criteria and views. Seemingly conflicting with established conceptions this area of science in general plays quite positive role. It not only reveals shortages of existing theoretical models but offers its own conceptions and cognitive strategies. The «Russian school» is always notable for such a scientific dissidence. The gone XX century was no exception. Just let me mention names of such thinkers as K.E. Tsyolkovsky (“Space philosophy”) A.L. Tchizhevsky (heliobiology and influence of the Sun on historical processes), D.L. Andreev (metahistory), L.N. Gumilev (theory of passionarity) to make it sure. It can be said for sure that as many modern Russian scientists studying connections between natural and human things Vladimir Nesterov keeps on this tradition. Practically all work is devoted to phenomena not being explained yet by the classic science. Having wide mental set and desirable erudition the author tries to fill such a gap. Upon offering a hypothesis the scientist fearlessly and, to my mind, quite correctly uses knowledge from different areas: cosmology and philosophy, psychology and crystallography, cybernetics and genetics. In order to corroborate his positions the author quite often applies to the latest scientific theories and hypotheses being outside of established scientific paradigm and not PSYCHOPHYSICS AS NEw PRIORITY IN MOdERN SCIENCE