Basic Principles of Synergetics and its Medical Applications

The origin of living matter in the process of evolution of the world around and inside us, the emergence of ordered structures in living and nonliving nature—phenomena that continue to remain among the most amazing and difficult to understand within the framework of materialistic science. SynergeticsSynergetics is a relatively new direction in science and education, which studies the processes of self-organization and the formation of ordered structures in animate and inanimate worlds. The synergetic approachSynergeticssynergetic approach uses the fundamental similarity between main features of the phenomena under investigation occurring in open, nonlinear, complex systems of various nature. Most of the achievements of the synergetic approach are largely appear due to the possibility of transferring the results of one science (for example, physics) that is, as a rule, more “simple” and accurate because of omitting many details which at first glance can be considered inessential, to the objects of another science (for example, medicine) that are much more complicated and which, therefore, can be described rather qualitatively than quantitatively. This approach is based on such well-tested and precise methods as the theory of phase transitions and critical phenomena, the theory of nonlinear oscillations and autowaves, kinetic models of “brussellator”, “oregonator” and synaptic trasmission, catastrophe and fractal theories and others. Dear reader, this chapter can be considered as a short excursion into the beautiful and diverse synergetic world.