ONTOLOGICAL AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF COMPLEXITY
Evgeny Sergeevich Ermakov
Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 1/2, Surganova str., Minsk, 220072, Republic of Belarus
Keywords: ontology, epistemology, asymmetry, complexity, participant observer, consciousness
Abstract
The article deals with the transdisciplinary problem of the emergence of the complexity. In the context of post-nonclassical rationality, сomplexity is studied in two interrelated aspects: the ontological and epistemological ones. Asymmetry is considered as one of the possible principles that specify complexifictio in systems of various ontological ranks. The generalized principle of “a participant observer” is proposed as a mechanism for distinguishing and objectifying the complex in the existing reality. In the context of “the hard problem of consciousness”, the heuristic of the proposed explanation for the emergence of complexity is considered.
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