SYNERGETICS AND COSMOLOGY (PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE COSMOLOGICAL MODEL OF THE UNIVERSE)

Abstract

Th is article provides a general perspective on the basic philosophical problems of contemporary Cosmology. It begins by considering these problems from the point of view of general self-organization theory. Self-organization is analyzed as interaction of chaos and order, with specifi c attention paid to the interrelation between self-organization and organization. It is shown that it is not chaos and order that should be considered as fundamentals, but rather the concept of self-organization (as mutual trans-mutations of chaos and order into each other). Th e idea of inadmissibility of the Meta-Galaxy and of Universe identifi cation is substantiated. A synergetic analysis of the large-scale Meta-Galaxy structure problem is given, and perspectives of a non-standard fractal-relativist model of the Universe are worked out. It is argued that such a model has to be built exclusively on the fractal theory (B. Mandelbrot, 1977) and the dissipative structures (I. Prigogine, 1968). Th is article investigates the philosophical signifi cance of such fundamental cosmological principles as Einstein’s Cosmology principle and Mandelbrot’s selfsimilarity principle, and gives a synergetic analysis of the Anthropic principle (B. Carter, 1973, Barrow, Tipler, 1986). Refs 23. Figs 10.

Keywords:

I. Prigogine, B. Mandelbrot, the cosmological anthropic principle, self-similarity, Synergetics and Cosmology, Large-scale structure of the Universe, Fractal geometry of Nature, Synergetics and the Complexity theory