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THE PHILOSOPHICAL THINKING AND THE AGING
Abstract. My metaintention is to promote a philosophy of the science of
explanation and control of aging. Thus, in the fisrt part (1)., I consider
the logicity of the scientific explanation of aging and I try to reduce the
incompatibility between the philosophical rational model of explanation and
the actual scientific explanations of aging. In the second part, I propose
a categorical metaexplanation of the neurocognitive aging, analysing some
results of neurobiology of aging and I propose a solution to a logical
problem of explanation of aging. In the third part, I emphasize that, a
complete explanation and understanding of aging requires also the knowledge
of aging's conditions and I make the distinction between the conditions and
causes of aging. In the fourth part, I propose a historical point for the
emergence of aging and make an epistemological provocation. In the fifth
part, I try to promote the fundamental principles of the eradication of
aging.
1. THE LOGIC AND THE AGING
2. THE MIND AND THE AGING
3. THE CONDITIONALITY AND THE AGING
4. THE EVOLUTION AND THE AGING
5. THE PRIMITIVE PRINCIPLES OF THE ERADICATION OF AGING
1. THE LOGIC AND THE AGING
How can be harmonized the scientific explanation of aging with the logic
and the philosophy of science? The traditional Hempelian model (DN) of
explanation was a deductive one. Hempel's model submsumes an individual
event to a certain general law, an individuality to a generality. The
generality can be unconditioned or conditioned. But, how can be modeled, in
a similar way, the theories from the Medvedev's rational clasification? I
consider that, most theories clasified by Medvedev are causaly explanatory.
A set of phenotypes causes aging's phenotypes. For instance, ROS causes
lesions, lesions also mean aging, aging is caused also by ROS. Or, myelin's
deterioration or thiness causes the decrease of the protective power of the
neuron. That decrease causes vulnerability to certain physical stressors.
That is why, the neuronal death is conditioned also by the loss or
deterioration of myelin. Important age-related neuronal losses causes
cognitive aging. Telomeric changes causes replicative senescence (Hayflick,
1983).
That is why, it seems that, we can formalize conjunctively Medvedev's
clasification in the folowing way: (c1 |