The modern scientific picture of the world is justOne of the possible ones that can be present in the human consciousness and determine it. Coexisting with all other pictures - the theological, mythological, philosophical, it is in some ways similar to them, it contains a common feature of other paintings, but also includes a number of fundamental features of its manifestation and impact on the consciousness and outlook of a person.
At the heart of the modern scientific paradigm of the world liesa natural scientific picture of the world that contains the basic ideas of people about space, time, nature, man and his place in this all. Actually, all these problems are present in other world paintings, and therefore our most important is our ability to distinguish this very "science" in order to correctly identify our cognitive motives and interests.
The problem only initially seems to be enoughsimple, because all of us still from the school bench are acquainted with the basic provisions that the modern model of the world contains. However, up to now the philosophy and methodology of science have not been able to give an unambiguous and definitive answer to the question, what is science and what is not.
Some philosophers, representatives of the positivist andneopositivist schools, argued that the modern scientific picture of the world is separated from the unscientific by a certain marking sign. These signs consistently advocated the principles of verification and falsification of the fact.
Other philosophical schools (sophists, scholastics)the main difference was found in the method of thinking, the third - in the use or non-use of mathematical methods of investigation. But whatever method of differentiation would be applied, in the end, it became obvious that they did not give a clear answer. For example, it is common knowledge that in the non-scientific spheres, methods of scientific analysis and interpretation of facts are quite appropriate, and vice versa, many scientific phenomena still do not find evidence or denials achieved with the help of scientific methodology. Thus, it became obvious that the signs of science are some kind of integrity, a system of properties that are present in certain combinations and proportions in other spheres that lie far from any branch of scientific knowledge.
Science as a whole system of knowledge and representationsabout the most common features, properties and laws of the universe, was formed as a result of the classification and generalization of some natural science concepts. The classical scientific picture of the world was formed on the basis of interdisciplinary concepts that attempted to provide answers to essential questions about the world. The overwhelming majority of these concepts included ideas about the substance (matter) and the forms of its movement and development, about space and time, about causality, patterns and interactions, ideas about the Cosmos.
As a result of the synthesis of individual, "branch"pictures of the world - geo-and heliocentric, electric and mechanistic, atomic and cosmological, the modern scientific picture of the world has evolved in an evolutionary way. It is based on the achievements of modern natural science and has a number of features that distinguish it from those that prevailed earlier. Among the main such signs can be called systemic, ability to self-organization and self-reproduction, global evolutionism and historicity. These signs simultaneously act as principles for constructing a model of a scientific picture, because they reflect the fundamental laws of the existence of nature.
These essential characteristics of the modern understanding of the world order in their basic features correspond to the current level of scientific knowledge.
