Biophysics of Evolution of Intellectual Systems

The first work on noogenesis as evolution of intellect was published 150 years ago. However, it was not until the 21st century that quantitation became possible for certain parameters that contribute to the understanding of the evolution of intellectual systems in natural sciences, the progress being due to basic achievements in physics, biology, medicine, and interdisciplinary fields. Analyses of the parameters of intellectual systems, patterns of their emergence and evolution, distinctive features, and the constants and limits of their structures and functions made it possible to measure and compare the capacity of communications (~100 to 300 million m/s), to quantify the number of components in intellectual systems (10–100 billion components), and to calculate the number of successful links responsible for cooperation (from 150 to 1 trillion links). Prognostic models can be developed by studying the phenomenon of the origin and evolution of the brain as a population of neurons within the biological evolution of Homo sapiens and the advent of cognition; by studying the brain of an individual throughout individual anatomic and physiological development, including the development of creativity, thinking, consciousness, idea, insight, intuition, and eureka; and by studying and “noo” in the context of the hypothesis of the morphological and functional evolution of the human population.