Boris Solozhenkin

…in life, the event itself — preceding us, populating our thoughts and experiences with its circumstances — matters most of all. My circumstances are as follows: I grew up in the Urals, was formed in St. Petersburg, and I create in and near Moscow. PhD, associate professor. I defended my thesis on issues of self-awareness. I’m the author of the book “Apology of Events… and the Poem ‘The Old Man’,” along with a number of scholarly articles in journals considered top-notch by today’s scholarly standards. I’m also a musician (Indian classical music) who plays the sitar.
…as proof of the first position, I will cite the utter randomness and even unconsciousness of my passion for music — a direction that has displaced all others. I acquired the instrument completely by chance, via the Internet. But improving my playing on it, making discoveries for my soul (in practice, in listening to the masters) predetermined my musical path. Raga transforms, and this is a miracle. My scholarly interests in the era of neural networks can be represented as a force field of key words: subjectivity, man, the theory of abilities, phenomenology, event, memory, imagination, real, process.
…In summary, as I conclude this incomplete autobiography, I might say that there’s not such a big difference between Destiny and Chance.