About the Book
Throughout history, humanity has grappled with how to face the inevitability of death. Today, this struggle takes many forms, from efforts to extend life through medical and technological advances to the fascination with apocalyptic imagery in popular culture. To move beyond these ideas and explore new possibilities, we must seek precise knowledge across fields such as cosmology, biology, and evolution, examining the origins of life and death, which trace back billions of years to the earliest organisms and chemical compounds on Earth. For humans, these life stages prompt profound questions about the origins and meaning of life, why we age and die, and what, if anything, lies beyond death. These mysteries have driven human curiosity since our earliest days as a species, and we are better prepared than ever to explore these questions. Life Cycle in the Natural Sciences and Traditional Cultures as a Complex System Self-Organization explores the modeling and system analysis of the human life cycle, from the emergence and evolution of life to death and post-mortem phenomena, all within the framework of the theory of self-organization of complex systems. By treating life cycle events as wave and soliton processes, the research bridges anthropology, systems theory, geology, biochemistry, and evolution, among other fields. Covering topics such as death, senility, and transpersonal experience, this book is an excellent resource for academicians, researchers, educators, graduate and postgraduate students, philosophers of science, and more.
About the Author :
Yury N. Kovalyov is Doctor of Technical Science, Professor Head of Industrial Design and Computer Technologies Department of the Mykhailo Boichuk Kyiv State Academy of Decorative Applied Arts and Design, Ukraine. Author of 268 scientific publications (8 monographs, 4 textbooks) in the fields of geometry foundations, mathematical modeling and multicriteria optimization of complex systems and human-machine systems, design, sociometry, psychology. Hobbies: poetry (author of 3 books), philosophy, yoga, sport, travel. Nver M. Mkhitaryan graduated from Yerevan. Polytechnic. Institute (1982). In 1982-88 he worked in the trust “Armvodbud”, in 1988-92 — chief engineer Yehegnut. Reinforced concrete products, 1992-96 — Art. teacher Yerevan. Institute of Architecture and Construction; in 1996-1999 — Chairman of the Board of Directors of the company, 1999 — 2002 — President of the corporation “Poznyakizhytlobud”, at the same time in 2003 — 201 — Director of the Institute of Renewable Energy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv). Member of Parliament of Ukraine (2002-06 and 2007-14). Scientific researches concern the physicochemical bases of heliothermal treatment of concrete and heliotechnology. Andriy Y. Morozov was born in Kyiv (Ukraine), 1981, Education. Taras Shevchenko Kyiv national university, the faculty of philosophy, 1998-2003 Master degree, 2003 PH.D. (in philosophy), 2007, Doctor of philosophical sciences (2014), Associate professor of department of philosophy, sociology and political sciences (Kyiv national university of trade and economics), 2015 - til present Author of the books of more than 50 articles and 3 monographs, including: “Love and death, “Intuition in search of goodness”, “Evil: spiritual and metaphysical aspects”. The field of scientific research: ethics, social philosophy, metaphysics, philosophical anthropology, christian theology, existential problems of fear of death, nostalgia, intuition and transpersonal experience. Yaroslava Zhukova , Ph.D (Biology)
