Naturalistic character of a new paradigm of technics

In the article the necessity, difficulty and feature of creation of a new paradigm of technicsis considered. This necessity is connected, first of all, with the quickly varying form, content and scale of existence of modern technics:with its more and more system character, complex structure and global distributions. There are problems of creation and management ofsuch technics, and also problems connected with impossibility to adequately reflect this condition and process at the moment. Difficultyof creation of a new paradigm of technics, first of all, is connected with the complex structure of the substratum of the technics phenomenon that demands deeper analysis of the nature of the ontological basis of technics in comparison with the one undertaken earlier:its hybrid nature reflecting the connection of natural and human components in it; the latter can be considered broader, including thesocial aspect. Legitimacy of the former accent in research on the anthropologic nature of technics and minority of its naturalistic componentstarts to raise doubts connected with the condition and character of "behaviour" of modern technics: its objectivity, its relativelyindependent existence, active influence and high degree of distribution concerning all the world around. Thereupon, probably, it makessense to look at technics, first of all, from the naturalistic approach: the phenomenon and the force genetically connected with existenceand development of the matter. The domestic philosopher V.M. Figurovskaya spoke about it in early 1980s, mentioning "the technicalform of movement of the matter". We can assume that an attempt to leave the limits of anthropologism, now dominating in the philosophyof technics, and its representation in the broadest sense not as a simply natural object, but as an object of synergetics with all itsinherent qualities (complexity, activity, behaviour, adaptability, development, etc.) will allow seeing (and understanding) new possibilities(estimated as positive or negative in relation to the person, nature, society and culture) of the technical phenomenon which hasgained global distribution today. In our opinion, the similar evolutionary approach in studying the nature of technics, which is now beingformed (in the general stream of researches it is more incidental, fragmentary and even paradoxical), allows hoping for some positiveadvancement in this direction.

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