ON THE NEED FOR A NEW ONTOLOGY

The need for a new ontology is knocking at the door of philosophy with increasing insistence. The past century was generous with discoveries of fundamental importance, which neither science nor philosophy had time to comprehend and adapt. The sum of accumulated knowledge, not co-opted into legitimate scientific theories, has become so heavy over time that it has crushed science and the rationality interpreted by it. Only ruins remain of the previous rational constructs, claiming to be objective and the most adequate reflection of the world. Everything that has survived has maximally selected the boundaries of its action, shrunk and is hopelessly waiting for its place in the new system. The more than trivial questions that have arisen — how reality is actually arranged, how can we call things and phenomena that fundamentally do not yet exist — clearly suggest the idea that the phenomenon of reflection itself can be understood only as a way of modeling virtual reality. The proposed article is a reflection on those foundations of the new ontology and philosophy as a whole, which can be discerned from the height of today and those discoveries that have already become habitual, which are still marginal, but have achieved a certain success in the matter of marginalizing yesterday's unshakable truths and theories, which together gave birth to freaks — the philosophy of uncertainty and a flawed ontology. Today, it is hardly worth looking for a panacea for all the troubles in science and philosophy, but the first, vaguest outlines of the horizon of expectation hint at interdisciplinary research, on the one hand, at the intersection of ontological sciences, natural science and philosophy, on the other — at the intersection of the cognitive sciences of psychology and philosophy. Of fundamental importance to the author is the position that all interdisciplinary research can be significant only in one case: if they unfold against the background of a special paradigm of thinking with an ethical system of values at the forefront. In addition to what actually clearly follows from the previous position, the new ontology will certainly be based on the theory of coevolution and on the legacy of Russian cosmism.