Natural Intelligence: One Law — Three Dimensions

The book presents a holistic concept of natural intelligence as a manifestation of the law of optimality, unfolding across three interrelated dimensions: form, action, and the loop of development. In this view, natural intelligence is not limited to living beings or brain function but emerges as a universal mode of world organization, through which systems—from the simplest to the most complex—seek, sustain, and refine optimal structures, trajectories, and cycles of interaction. The unity of the law lies in the fact that changes in scale or level of organization do not disrupt the logic of optimality but instead give it new forms of expression. The book integrates intuitive metaphors, formal generalizations, and interdisciplinary examples from physics, biology, cybernetics, systems theory, and cognitive science. This approach enables readers to see intelligence, life, and evolution as different operational modes of a single natural law of optimality—one that links form, action, and the developmental loop into a unified dynamic picture. The edition is intended for researchers, educators, philosophers, and AI professionals, as well as anyone seeking to understand intelligence as a natural phenomenon and to explore how such a view could transform science, education, and technology.