Currently, the number of works that study body aging mechanisms is rapidly growing in the world. This problem occupies not only philosophers, biologists, and physicians but also representatives of the exact sciences—physicists, chemists, and mathematicians. Experimental studies are being conducted at various levels of the structural organization of living matter, as well as theoretical studies, and all sorts of conceptual and mathematical models are being built. At the same time, there is still no unified generally accepted theory of aging in gerontology, and even the very concept of aging remains blurred. In addition, most people, including researchers, consider the aging process mainly through the prism of their personal dramatic perception of age-related changes in their own bodies. However, the biological significance of aging, under an objective assessment of this process, appears in a completely different quality—as a universal, permanent, unidirectional physiological process of the structural development of living matter, proceeding in unity with time. The creation of structures of a higher level is impossible without the elimination of less perfect forms with the subsequent use of their constituent elements in further development. Such elimination can only occur through the mechanisms of aging and death. Throughout the life of an individual, the structural elements of his body acquire higher structural and functional properties and, getting into the “melting pot” of the biosphere after death, increase the quality of its integral structure. Thus, each newly emerging organism rises on the mighty shoulders of the previous biological structures and in ontogeny creates new, more perfect structural elements, providing a step in forward motion—the evolutionary development of living matter. At the present stage of evolution, the accumulated amount of information has led to the creation of man—a carrier of thinking matter, capable of carrying out an abstracted analysis of the environment, encoding the collected information, and transforming it into technical tools and technologies.

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衰老在人类进化发展中的作用

目前，世界范围内研究身体衰老机制的作品数量正在迅速增长。这个问题不仅涉及哲学家、生物学家和医生，而且涉及精确科学的代表——物理学家、化学家和数学家。生命物质结构组织的各个层次正在进行实验研究和理论研究，各种概念和数学模型正在建立。同时，老年学中还没有统一的普遍接受的衰老理论，甚至衰老的概念也很模糊。此外，包括研究人员在内的大多数人主要通过他们对自己身体与年龄相关变化的个人戏剧性感知来考虑衰老过程。然而，衰老的生物学意义，在对这个过程的客观评估下，它以完全不同的性质出现——作为生物结构发展的一个普遍的、永久的、单向的生理过程，随着时间的推移而进行。如果不消除不太完美的形式，随后在进一步发展中使用其组成元素，就不可能创建更高级别的结构。这种消除只能通过衰老和死亡机制发生。在一个人的一生中，他身体的结构元素获得更高的结构和功能特性，并在死后进入生物圈的“熔炉”，提高其整体结构的质量。因此，每一个新出现的生物都站在先前生物结构的强大肩膀上，在个体发育中创造出新的、更完美的结构元素，为向前运动提供了一个步骤——生命物质的进化发展。在进化的现阶段，信息量的积累导致了人的产生——一种思维物质的载体，能够对环境进行抽象分析，对收集到的信息进行编码，并将其转化为技术工具和技术。 .