On the Genesis of the Great Anthropological Transition

Abstract

Today, humanity has entered an endless series of crisis states of practically all vi­tal forms of activity, which the global elites are already calling the “new nor­malcy”, and, in our opinion, this is only the initial stage of the Great Anthropolo­gical Transition. We can observe its manifestations today in anthropological, historical, socio-cultural, economic, medico-biological crisis phenomena, which demonstrating various options for the transition between two states of norm-homeostasis (in exact natural science, the term “phase transition” is often used). According to I. Prigogine and G. Haken, the transition or transit of the processes of becoming from one homeostasis to another always contain the following three consecutive phases against the background of an infinitely slow passage of crit­ical characteristics-calls or basic control parameters. A – the phase of death-dis­sociation of the outgoing order, returning its degrees of freedom to a subordinate level; B – the phase of the developed chaos of uncertainty and complexity at the subordinate level, in which the possible structures of an alternative future order fluctuate (are born and die for a short time); C – the phase of the birth of a new order through the capture by the fastest fluctuation of access to the resource of the system and fixing the system. The article substantiates the universality of such a structure for the development of a crisis and the possibility of managing it at each stage on the example of understanding social processes in a pandemic