The Complexity Levels of Psychological Thinking and Modern Cognitive science

The author argues that the use of special methods of historical analysis that are aimed at the detection of the trends of development of particular science (psychology, in particular), helps in the identification of regularities in the development of scientific knowledge. It is manifested in the complication of the system organization of science and, accordingly, in the growth of complexity of thinking, used by scientists. In accordance with historical-systemic approach, science is understood as an open self-learning system, becoming more complex in the process of its development. The use of historical-systematic approach (1987) in psychology has shown that science has consistently held in its development of two-stage and in the current moment of time starting the development of a new (higher and complicated) level systematic vision of the psychological reality. The essence of the transition lies in the fact that the man begins to be seen in psychology not only as a self-regulating system, but as a self-organizing and self-developing system. In 1989, it was proven that such transitions are common to all sciences. It allows us to distinguish between successive stages in the formation of the science: «classicism, non-classicism, post-non-classicism» (V.S. Stepin). It is shown that simple systems act as the dominant object in the classical science, complex self-regulating system is dominated by the non-classical science, and the subject of post-non-classical science is complex self-developing systems. Affirmed, that the selectivity in the processes of cognition of the world (and myself) is in direct dependence on the organization of the multidimensional life world of the person. It is important to take it into consideration in the cognitive sciences. Cognitive sciences ascend to the multidimensional thinking with «different speeds». However, this movement towards a more complicated thinking leads to the fact, that on the background of the still ongoing phase of interdisciplinary research in the cognitive sciences is formed transdisciplinary «creative polylogue» scientific disciplines. Can you believe that transdisciplinary discourse is able to generate such knowledge, which owns no one of the sciences, and when receives it exceeds the capabilities of any of them.

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