�The Foundations of Synergetics: Blow-up Regimes,
Self-Organization, Tempoworlds�(St.Petersburg: Aletheia, 2002. 418 p.) by
Helena Knyazeva and Sergei P. Kurdyumov
Preface
Introduction
Chapter
1. Synergetics from the Historical Retrospective Point of View.
Precursors
of Synergetics in Science
Chapter
2. Synergetics as a new Paradigm.
Dialogue
with I.Prigogine
2.1. The Creation Fire
2.2. The Curtailment of the Complex:
the Notion of Structure-Attractors of Evolution
2.3. The Image of an Open Medium
2.4. Philosophical Sense of the Concept of
�Nonlinearity�
2.5. Blow-up Processes
2.6. Development through Instability
2.7. Wandering over a Field of Evolutionary
Ways
2.8. Does the Modem Science Lose its
Materialistic Character?
2.9. Once again about Reductionism
2.10. A New Image of Determinism
Chapter
3. The Synergetic Extension of the Anthropic Principle
3.1. Synergetics as a Science of Complexity
3.2. The Anthropic Principle in Synergetics
3.2.1. A Narrow Evolutionary Corridor in the
Complexity
3.2.2. Reduction of Complexity
3.2.3. Justification of the Model. Competition
of Two Factors in a Nonlinear System
3.2.4. The Problem of Reconstruction of an
Attractor
3.2.5. The Method of AAS (Approximate
Auto-model Solutions)
3.2.6. A New Type of Strange Attractors
3.2.7. A Spectrum of Structure-Attractors
Exists Close by the S-Regime
3.3. The Complexity: the Whole and the Aim
3.4. On the Way Towards Synergetics with Human
Face
3.5. Models of Synergetics, Development of
Humankind, Demographic Crises
3.5.1. The Hyperbolic Character of the World
Population Growth
3.5.2. The Inner Stability of the Law of Growth
3.5.3. The Asymptotic Instability. Demographic
Crises.
The Modern Danger of a Super-catastrophe.
3.5.4. Periods in Human History. The Shortening
of the Period
3.5.5. Oscillations in Space. Nets of Cities.
Christaller�s Lattices
3.5.6. The Media of Information. The
Possibility of Strengthening of Nonlinearity
3.5.7. Some Expectations and Forecasts
Chapter
4. Synergetics in the Context of Culture
4.1. Synergetic Ideas and Images of Human
Culture
4.1.1. Attractors. The Aims of Evolution
4.1.2. Bifurcations. Branchings. Choice
4.1.3. Fractals. Self-similarity of Processes
on the Different Levels.
Monads
4.1.4. The Vortex Begetting
4.2. Synergetics at the Crossroads of the
Eastern and the Western Cultures.
Synergetics and the East
4.2.1. Everything in Everything
4.2.2. The Potential and the Unrevealed
4.2.3. The Yin-Yang Rhythms. Eternal Recurrence
4.2.4. The Idea of Connection between
Tempoworlds
4.2.5. The Creative Role of Chance
4.2.6. How Is the Shortest Path Possible?
4.2.7. The Idea of Resonance. Bonds of the Echo
Type
4.3. Synergetics and the Traditions of the West
4.3.1. Plato�s Perfect Bodies of Nature
4.3.2. The Cosmic Vortexes of Descartes
4.3.3. Monadology of Leibniz
4.3.4. The Image of Becoming in Chaos Described
by Nietzsche
4.3.5. The Creative Evolution According to
Bergson
4.3.6. The Modi of Time by Heidegger
Chapter
5. The Main Principles of Synergetic Worldview
5.1. New Notion of Chaos
5.2. New Teleology
5.3. New Holism
5.3.1. The Integration of Structures through
the Establishment
of a Common Tempo of Development
5.3.2. How is the Acceleration of Tempo of
Development Possible? . 91
5.3.3. Symmetry and Asymmetry
5.3.4. The Past and the Future are �Impressed�
on an Architecture
of a Structure
5.3.5. �Self-rising to the Surface� of Memory
Structures
5.3.6. A Meeting of Different Tempoworlds
5.4. New Principles of Management
5.4.1. The Application of the New Methodology
to the World
of Physical Processes
5.4.2. Its Application to the Human and Social
World.
Constructive Principles of the Complex Systems
Co-evolution
In the
Search of Parameters of Order.
Super-rapid
Development of Processes in Social Systems
The Field
of Evolutionary Paths in Social Systems
Problems of
Co-evolution of a Human and Nature
Determination
of Evolutionary Processes from the Future
Role of
Chaos in Social Development
When Can a
Personality Influence the Course of History?
A Path of
Acceleration of Evolution
Laws of
Integration of Complex Social Structures
Pulsative
Rhythm of the Accent to Unity
The
Possibility of Transformation of the Field of Paths of Evolution
Chapter
6. On The Way Towards Synergetics of Cognition
6.1. �Babylon Tower� of Knowledge
6.2. Criticism of the Traditional Linear View
6.3. Is Synergetics Applicable to the Analysis
of Cognitive Processes?
6.4. Three Arguments in Defense of Synergetics
of Cognition
6.5. Nonlinear View of Cognitive Evolution
6.6. The Embodied Mind: The Prospects of
Application of the Models of Nonlinear Dynamics in Cognitive Science
Chapter
7. The Mental Ferment of the Creators. Synergetic View
of
�Cognitive Robinzonian Activities�
7.1. Scenarios of the Creative Thinking
7.2. The Emergent Appearance of a New or its
Latent
Predetermination? The Attractors of the
Creative Thinking
7.3. Self-organization as a Mechanism of the
Creative Thinking
7.3.1. Holism in the Creative Work
7.3.2. The Art of Selection
7.3.3. Self-completing
7.3.4. A Cascade of the Talent Crystallization
7.3.5. The Phenomenon of Resonance
7.4. Beyond the Mental: the Path of the
Creative Intuition and the Yoga Path
7.4.1. To Erase the Old Tracks
7.4.2. The Consciousness as a Treasure-house
7.4.3. The Tighting into a point
7.4.4. An Hierarchy of the Consciousness
The Connection of Tempoworlds
7.4.5. The Rhythms of the Creative Activities
7.4.6. Human Being as a Device. A Resonance
7.4.7. A Danger of Splitting of the
Consciousness
7.4.8. A Topology of the Soul
Chapter
8. The Adventures of the Collective Mind.
The
Historical Development of Science and Culture from the Synergetic Point of View
8.1. Alternative and Diverse Evolutionary Ways
of Scientific Knowledge
8.2. Unevenness of Tempo of Scientific
Progress.
An Oscillatory Regime
8.3. Impossibilities of the Getting Rid of the
Prejudices in Science.
Misconceptions of the Collective Mind
8.4. The Nature of Innovations
8.4.1. The New as a Forgotten Old
8.4.2. The New as an Intersection of Scientific
Traditions
8.4.3. The New as a �Mutation� of Cultural
Relay-races
8.5. The Phenomenon of Inertia of the
Paradigmatic Consciousness
8.6. Conditions of �Survival� of the New in
Science
8.6.1. How Can the Searching Spirit Express
�der Zeitgeist�
(the �Spirit of Time�)?
8.6.2. The Phenomenon of the Simultaneous
Scientific Discoveries.
The Ideas are Looking for People
8.6.3. Ecology of Knowledge. The Individual
�Building into Culture�
Chapter
9. Synergetics of Education
9.1. Why Does Synergetics Have a Special
Significance for Education?
9.1.1. Interdisciplinarity of Synergetics
9.1.2. The Synthetic Function of Synergetics
9.1.3. Synergetics as a Strategy of Research
9.1.4. The connection of Synergetics with the
Future
9.1.5. Synergetics as a Method and Contents of
Education
9.2. The Synergetic Methods of Education
9.2.1. Self-Education
9.2.2. Nonlinear Dialogue
9.2.3. Awakening Education
9.2.4. Education as an Adaptive Modification
9.2.5. Education as a Phase Transition
9.2.6. Gestalt-education
9.3. Return to the Visual Thinking
Chapter
10. Synergetics and the Futures Studies
10.1. Thinking Oriented towards Foreseeing the
Future
10.2. Global Problems and Global Opportunities
10.3. Changes in� Attitudes of Research
10.4. Alternative and Attainable Future. A
Spectrum of Pathways into the Future
10.5. Horizons of Future. Limits of
Predictability
10.6. Future is already here. One has only to
learn to see it
10.7. The Art of Soft Management
10.5. To Attain Unattainable. Hopes for Better
Future
Conclusion
Epilogue
Appendix
I.
Belavin, V.A., Kapitza, S.P., and Kurdyumov, S.P. The Mathematical Model of Global
Demographic Processes with Regard for Spatial Distribution.
Appendix
II.
Knyazeva
E.N. Complex Systems and Nonlinear Dynamics in Nature and in Society.
Notes
on the 1st Annual Conference of the German Society for Complex
Systems and Nonlinear Dynamics (October 1997)
Appendix
III.
Synergetics:
Thirty-years-old Child and his Father. Interview with Prof. H.Haken. Conducted
by H.Knyazeva.
Glossary
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