ROUND TABLE: Do conflicts in Nature and society contradict the principle of plot complementarity?

Abstract

The principle of complementarity is a methodological and heuristic principle of modern science, which is used to describe objects of any nature by introducing additional mutually exclusive classes of concepts, each of which is applicable in special conditions, and their totality allows us to build a holistic model of the phenomenon under study. However, considering, for example, in Nature a pair of a hunter and a victim, and in human society - wars that continue to this day, we see the manifestation of another type of principle - plot complementarity, where antagonists complement each other, but at the same time one of the parties destroys the opposite, thereby, as if, destroying the scheme of their balance. The plot-game paradigm of describing Reality makes it possible to resolve this contradiction.
The plot-game concept of Reality, based on the ancient Indian image of the World as a Cosmic Game, offers a variant of explaining this contradiction and its resolution. Reality is presented as a certain spiritual-psycho-physical integrity, unfolding in cycles of manifestation and collapse of the Universe (Days and Nights of Brahma) in the form of interaction of individuals of different spatio-temporal scales and levels of awareness of what is happening - from particles, atoms, molecules, cells, organisms, communities to cosmic formations up to the Universe as a whole. Then, in the context of the plot-game concept of Reality, a conscious act of self-sacrifice of an individual of a certain level testifies to his advancement along the trajectory of spiritual development.

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Oleg V. Schimelfenig
Saratov State University
Russia

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