Observer of Complexity in the Context of Paradigm of Post-non-classical Rationality

Abstract

New concept of observer of complexity is introduced in the context of “evolution and constructive” science development model elaborated by Vyacheslav S. Stepin who distinguishes three basic stages in this process: classical phase, non-classical stage, and post-non-classical one. Observer of complexity is successively connected with quantum mechanical observer of non-classical science and with observer of Laplace in classical theory. In this connection special attention is devoted to the significance of works of such authors as Edgar Morin, Heinz von Foerster and Gregory Bateson which are the founders of second-order cybernetics, Francisco Varela and Humberto Maturana who are the autopoiesis conception authors, and also to the logical form of differentialist thinking presented by George Spencer Brown.