Why is logic not taught in schools?

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

One night in 1946, the famous Russian philosopher and logician, professor at Moscow State University named after M. V. Lomonosov Valentin Ferdinandovich Asmus was lifted out of bed by unknown people, but was taken not to the Lubyanka, but to the Kremlin, to a meeting of the Council of Ministers. "Comrade Asmus, please explain to comrades from the government what logic is and how this science helps the party to defeat the capitalists and other enemies of the working class," - something like (as I believe) Stalin turned to the stunned professor.

In the same year, the teaching of logic in secondary schools and universities was restored, which was abolished in 1918. In 1947, the first book on logic in the USSR appeared (by V. F. Asmus), followed by textbooks on formal logic for schoolchildren. I am sure that the rapid post-war development of the USSR, the Soviet Union's entry into space and other achievements became possible thanks, among other things, to logic.

At the end of the 50s of the last century, teaching logic again left secondary schools and was significantly reduced in universities. It was at this moment that the scientific approach to building communism cracked. Without logic, Soviet science became noticeably poorer, and humanitarian thought and ideology gradually turned into scholasticism.

Meanwhile, logic is the only science that has been taught in the world for more than 2300 years, and without knowledge of the laws of thinking, in principle, the development of science as such is impossible. So Russia is still in space because a certain number of people are still alive who understand what mathematical logic, physical logic, etc. are. Without the development of logical thinking, the development of the political sphere, information environment, etc. is impossible.

Accordingly, the neglect of logical knowledge leads to degradation of the level of decision-making, to the substitution of reliability, for example, of information broadcast by the mass media with dubious criteria of "trust". I quote myself: "While the West seeks to replace the concept of" reliability of information "with the concept of" trust in the source of information, "Russian journalism should, I believe, raise the" reliability "of a fact to the rank of an axiom.

Otherwise, she risks falling into the proposed discourse of discussions about whose sources are more credible - the BBC or, for example, RT. After that, large-scale financial injections into social advertising Western netocrats will predetermine the necessary answer to this question. This is just a small touch to the thesis that the problem of the development of logical intelligence is becoming a problem of national security.

A logically thinking person differs from an ordinary person in the same way as, for example, a person with an impeccable ear for music differs from an individual whose ear has been stepped on by a bear.

Meanwhile, if the majority of citizens are able to distinguish good (logical) music from cacophony, then for some reason this very majority is ready to listen to the cacophony of politicians' statements during some talk show. The massiveization of culture and the exclusion of logic from the education system have led to the fact that people are increasingly focused not on the truth, but on all sorts of fairy tales and mythology. And this situation seems to suit those who hold the levers of the world in their hands.

It is believed that in the humanities, everything is very subjective and, as it were, indefinite. Although in fact, uncertainty is the result of the lack of a culture of thinking. Today, no one (both in Russia and abroad) develops a logical ear in children, does not teach the rules of at least elementary logic.

On the contrary, logic for the people - from the point of view of the mighty of this world - is generally harmful. Well, how do citizens compare "A" with "B" and understand that they are being cheated every day and for all possible reasons, and this is done by the very "servants of the people" who seem to be supposed to keep order (logic is almost identical to order) in the state …

People are purposefully disaccustomed to thinking logically. On the other hand, the function of logical thinking is increasingly taken over by the computer, especially since in modern society the individual is required not to think, but to consume.

Today, people no longer risk playing chess with a machine. It is irrevocably lost to artificial intelligence when it comes to counting and quantitative analysis. There is only one loophole left for keeping a person's consciousness outside the machine and above it - that area of his, which is responsible for intuition, creative enlightenment, manifestation of feelings, morality, etc. However, the machine is no longer subject to mathematics and physics.

She also masters logical mathematics and logical physics, that is, she goes from banal counting to real thinking. And today scientists around the world are concerned about the question: is artificial intelligence capable of mastering metaphysics? In the 21st century, a good half of research in the field of physical and mathematical sciences falls on quantum physics, which, as it is believed, either borders on metaphysics, or is such.

Hence the hypothesis that the day is not far off when not only thinking, but also human consciousness as such can be digitized. Both physicists, and metaphysicists, and those who drove logic behind Mozhai, not so long ago threw down the gauntlet from the Biographical Institute of Alexander Zinoviev.

Thanks to the presidential grant, the Institute, with the support of the Zinoviev Club MIA "Russia Today" and several thick scientific journals led by the journal of the Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences Sergey Petrovich Kapitsa "In the World of Science", organized a series of logical seminars that are held in the meeting room of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Logic seminar organized by the Biographical Institute of Alexander Zinoviev

The first seminar on the topic "The logic of scientific knowledge: tools, their capabilities and limits" was held on January 27. The second is scheduled for February 28, the third - at the end of March. (The scientific supervisor of the seminar is a colleague of Alexander Zinoviev and a member of the Zinoviev club MIA "Russia Today" Yuri Nikolaevich Solodukhin).

At the second seminar (topic: "Complex logic, logical physics and metaphysics - areas of interaction"), the main scientific problem of our time will be considered: are the neurons of the human brain compatible with a computer chip and how the material in this case is transformed into the ideal and vice versa.

Where is the portal of entry into human thinking, are computer programs capable of reproducing spiritual values, and what are the possibilities of controlling the behavior of a robot, which some in the West are already proposing to give legal status? The philiric hypothesis consists in the assertion that a machine, in principle, is capable of replacing a person, and humanity is on the verge of the moment when the true nature of a quantum, which has a double - material-ideal - nature, will be revealed.

It is not for nothing that today all big philosophy has rushed into metaphysics and metaphilosophy (plunging at the same time into theology), finally exposing sociology, political science, philosophical anthropology and some other specific humanities.

Confirmation of this hypothesis would be a situation (seriously discussed in various kinds of innovative intellectual environments), in which a human personality can be downloaded to a flash drive to be placed later in any material object, and vice versa: any advanced android at some point in time suddenly acquires the status of a physical faces. The author of these lines belongs, rather, to a different party - the physicists, the essence of the hypothesis of which boils down to fundamentally different provisions: that a machine cannot and should not replace a person.

And if this were possible, the Creator would send to Earth to people not Christ, but a terminator.

Equating androids with humans will inevitably lead to an uprising of machines or, on the contrary, to active resistance of the thinking part of humanity to any technological progress.

Alexander Alexandrovich Zinoviev was the first Soviet logician to draw attention to the problem of the formation of artificial intelligence from the point of view of the prospects for human consciousness and the anthroposphere as a whole. That is why, back in the 60s of the last century, he raised the question of the need to form complex logic as a "science of sciences" and the basis of "intellectology" designed to systematize and unify scientific languages.

Similar ideas - already from the standpoint of a specialist in the field of natural sciences - are expressed today by the academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, neurobiologist Konstantin Vladimirovich Anokhin, who proposed to form a "unified theory of mind" - cognitology.

Indeed, an integrated approach to cognitive sciences today is highly relevant, also because the modern world, enriching itself with ever new scientific disciplines and highly specialized terminology, is turning into a "scientific Babylon": representatives of science speak hundreds of different languages and understand each other with great difficulty. …

The scientific space is becoming more fragmented, due to the lack of universal approaches to the study and understanding of the most important problems of our time, the volumes of information accumulated by mankind in an ever increasing progression become not a resource of science, but an obstacle to its further development.

The so-called "logical intellect" is called upon to harmonize human consciousness, scientific languages and computer programs - a substance designed to combine all aspects of knowledge into a consistent whole, functioning under the control of man and in his interests. But in order for such an opportunity to become a reality, it is important to form a culture of thinking in the country based on an understanding of the laws of logic.