Metaphysics

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The author's memoirs are presented about the time when he was a participant in the scientific seminar of the Faculty of Physics of Moscow State University in 1960-1963, which was led by Professor Dmitry Dmitrievich Ivanenko. All this time, Dmitry Dmitrievich was the author’s supervisor, both when completing his thesis and then when working on his candidate’s dissertation. The obtaining of two important scientific results under the leadership of Dmitry Dmitrievich is described. The first of them is the creation of a Poincaré gauge theory of gravity, and the second is the use of 10-dimensional space-time for a joint description of the space-time and internal isotopic properties of elementary particles.

The article talks about the role and significance of Dmitry Ivanenko’s scientific activity in the development, formation of Soviet physics and its entry into the world’s forefront. It is shown that in terms of the number of new ideas and new developments in theoretical physics, almost none of the famous physicists can compare with D. Ivanenko. It tells about the author’s joint work with D. Ivanenko.

In an article dedicated to the 120th anniversary of the birth of D.D. Ivanenko (1904-1994), his works and activities in the field of history of physics are examined. His important contributions to the history of the theory of relativity are noted, as well as his part-time work for more than 15 years at the Institute of the History of Natural Science and Technology as a senior researcher. The main directions of his historical and scientific research are the history of general relativity and unified field theories, nuclear physics and physics in the USSR. The importance of his work on the history of gauge theories is also emphasized. Fragments of memories of Ivanenko are given and some aspects of the author’s personal communication with him are touched upon.

The article is devoted to the consideration of the Russian language with the aim of revealing those metaphysical patterns that predetermined the formation of its lexical and grammatical structure, and, consequently, the linguistic personality behind it. Particular attention is paid to the ethnocultural and psycholinguistic origins of the category of impersonality, one of the basic constants of the primitive image of the world. The desire to fit in during life itself predetermined the formation of an archaic linguistic picture of the world, in which the metaphysical principles of complementarity and trinity were manifested.

The article examines the issues of organizing social life and behavioral norms of representatives of societies of different civilizations, which are accepted in them as historical and cultural constants and institutions. Some essential features of the European and Eurasian civilizations are analyzed in contrast against the background of the historical experience of the European and Eurasian cultures related to them. The main place in the article is given to the systematization of cultural norms and principles of organizing social life in the Eurasian and European civilizations, as well as in the multinational Russian state, taking into account the fundamental ideas of Professor N.S. Trubetskoy.

The purpose of the article is to analyze and demonstrate the heuristic possibilities of the theory of speech activity as the only global theory in modern psycholinguistics. The perception of this theory involves the study of methodological and theoretical conceptual apparatus as a condition for experimental verification of empirical data.

The idea of a mathematical multiverse was put forward by Max Tegmark as a hypothetical answer to the question of why the physical laws and initial conditions of the visible universe are exactly the same and not different. The hypothesis postulates the existence of an infinite number of universes with all possible laws; “what exists mathematically exists physically.” Supplemented by a tautological weak anthropic principle - only those universes are observed where observers are physically possible - this hypothesis of Maxivers was proposed as an explanation of the anthropicity of the laws and initial conditions of our universe, structurally and finely tuned to life and thinking. In the proposed work, Tegmark's hypothesis is refuted on the basis of the Pythagoreanism of our universe - the simplicity, scale and high accuracy of physical laws, as they are already known to us. This simplicity, the mathematical elegance of the laws requires a separate principle at the metaphysical level, rooted in some higher totality that no longer contains any specifics, nothing contingent. Tegmark's hypothesis offers almost nothing as such a totality, metaphysical chaos; it is the hypothesis of chaosogenesis. The alternative totality to chaos is the absolute mind, the mind as such. Consequently, the refutation of the Maxivers hypothesis leads to the conclusion that the very special laws of the visible universe are set by a higher mind.