Evolution of the Structure of the Object of Science
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EVOLUTION OF THE STRUCTURE OF THE OBJECT OF SCIENCE
A. F. Kurgaev
UDC 004.8
Abstract. The author considers the disciplinary structure and the structure of the organizational management of science, hierarchy of the structure of reality, and questions of the evolution of nature and its components. The essence of the logic of the nature evolution process is shown to be the continuous creation and selection of ne w structures in the hierarchy of reality in the context of direct and reverse interlevel transmission of results of creation and also the inflow of matter, energy and/or information from the outside. It is obvious that it is this logic that must form the basis of the evolution of progressive intelligent systems and that the information support of scientific investigations must be adequate to the structure of the hierarchy of reality. Keywords: disciplinary structure of science, transdisciplinarity, global evolutionism, hierarchy of the structure of the world, evolution of information, functioning of knowledge and problems in society. INTRODUCTION In the course of evolution, the ability of living systems to store, use, and develop information is continuously improved by developing the hierarchical structure of their nested systems differing both by means of implementation and by forms of representation of information varying from genetic information to information in the nervous system and brain and then to extrasomatic information. This article proposes an updated information infrastructure of functioning knowledge in society. This infrastructure technologically provides the productive interaction between all its components under conditions favorable for the progress of both the science itself and for a creative society. In the most general form, scientific activity is performed according to the iterative structure of interaction of the multiple subject of science (consisting of pairs scientists–information technologies) with established scientific knowledge and reality [1–3]. It is obvious that the adequacy of scientific knowledge to the real world is attainable only as a result of structuring science according to the objective structure of reality. The remaining question concerns the following main point: what is this objectivity [4]? On the whole, science is characterized by a disciplinary structure and an organizational structure in management. These structures are formed to solve different problems but are subordinated to the common objective of achieving the maximum efficiency of science. Therefore, it is important to determine the consistency of combination of interacting science structures. DISCIPLINARY STRUCTURE OF SCIENCE The volume of scientific information doubles every fifteen years. To generate and preserve this knowledge, scientists in already more than 8000 disciplines are working [5]. It would seem that scientific knowledge has reached V. M. Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine, [email protected]. Translated from Kibernetika Sistemnyi Ana
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