Modern scientific picture of the world as a result of the evolution of scientific knowledge

The modern scientific picture of the world is just one of the possible ones that can be present in the human mind and determine it. Coexisting with all other pictures - the theological, mythological, philosophical, it is somewhat 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 worldview of man.

At the heart of the modern scientific paradigm of the world lies the natural scientific picture of the world, which 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, so our most important is our ability to distinguish this very "scientific character" in order to properly identify our cognitive motives and interests.

The problem is just initially, it seems, simple enough, because we are all familiar with the basic provisions that the modern model of the world contains from the school day. However, until 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 and neo-positivist schools, argued that the modern scientific picture of the world is separated from the unscientific by a certain marking sign. Such signs consistently were the principles of verification and falsification of the fact.

Other philosophical schools (sophists, scholastics) found the main difference 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 conversely, 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 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 an integral system of knowledge and ideas about the most common features, properties and laws of the universe, was formed as a result of the classification and generalization of certain natural science concepts. The classical scientific picture of the world has developed 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, "industry" paintings of the world - geo- and heliocentric, electric and mechanistic, atomic and cosmological, the modern scientific picture of the world evolved. 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 modern understanding of the world order in their basic features correspond to the level of scientific knowledge achieved at the moment.