Synergetics in philosophy, its past, present and future

The word "synergetics" owes its origin to the ancient Greek "senergheia", which means assistance, cooperation and complicity. Synergetics studies the so-called interdisciplinary direction of research that does not belong to any particular science, which masteres the general processes of chaos transitions into an ordered state and back. It is also used in chemistry, physics, biology, ecology, social sciences and many other sciences.

The basic concepts of synergetics were introduced by the German physicist Hermann Haken in the seventies of the last century, although the term was created by the English physiologist Sherington in the nineteenth century. In his long-standing work "Synergetics" Haken noted that for many disciplines, the cooperation of different parts of one system always leads to the creation of macroscopic structures or functions that subsequently cause changes leading to self-organization.

Synergetics in philosophy, social and natural sciences deals with the systemic approach and asserts that, in addition to space and time, the objects are constantly in some definite interconnection, which causes the appearance of new properties that the objects themselves do not possess.

Just some two decades ago, synergetics was a toy of reason for theoretical physicists, 10 years later this approach helped to experimentally reveal many remarkable phenomena, and now it is being made the basis for advanced technologies, is constantly used in strategic planning, contributes to the creation of computer models, Where synergetics is displayed in philosophy, sociology, psychology, biology and many other fields.

However, with the beginning of the use of the basic concepts of synergetics, an unnatural contradiction arose between clear and beautiful general concepts and the complexity of their use in any specific systems. For the simplicity and unity of the views of synergetics, its supporters now have to pay a fairly high price. It was not long ago that the "theory of everything" -which individual humanists imagined her synergetics in philosophy and other sciences-could not offer any concrete results and new methods.

A number of researchers reject this trend. They seriously expect that synergetics in philosophy is simply obliged to finally obtain a statute of philosophical science, and perhaps even replace dialectics. However, those who intend to continue to contemplate synergetics in philosophy on a previous scientific basis, believe that the philosophy of science is not the science itself, and it does not have to become an essential part of the latter. Scientists who adhere to this trend are increasingly turning to the idea of a new paradigm of synergetics. Perhaps not so common and accessible, but much more specific and profound. It is worth paying attention to the individual steps that are being taken today in this direction.

To date, scientists do not have a satisfactory answer to the question of where the basic concepts of synergetics end and something else begins. Researchers try to deliver and add to what synergetics studies, everything that they love in their own sciences. And some judgments can be boldly expressed today.

One can assume that one of the tasks of modern synergetics will be a supra-disciplinary analysis of general scientific ignorance and goals that can only be put to oneself. Surprisingly, until now, the scientific and philosophical attention is almost not paid to the main problem of science - understanding the fundamental strategy of philosophy and science, answering the global question of modern knowledge about what we can, we are going to and should know. What price is our world willing to pay for this and how can it change it. And the aspect of value here is no less significant than the target.