Creativity and the New Structure of Science

TL;DR

This paper proposes a new, more flexible organization of science based on a universal complexity concept, aiming to improve fundamental science's development and self-understanding.

Contribution

It introduces a novel framework for science structure using the universal complexity concept, emphasizing self-derivation of knowledge and system completeness.

Findings

Application of the universal complexity concept to science structure

Demonstration of a criterion for system completeness and viability

Proposal of a more liberal and efficient organization of scientific research

Abstract

A qualitatively new, much more liberal and efficient organisation of science is proposed and justified, in connection with growing debate about further role and development of fundamental science. Although the key ideas can be explained with the help of "common sense" arguments accessible to a "general" audience, they are based on the rigorous analysis within the recently advanced "universal concept of complexity" (physics/9806002, physics/0211071), which can be applied, due to its universality, also to science structure itself considered as a complex system. We demonstrate thus the application of the ultimate criterion of completeness of a system of knowledge (and viability of related intelligence) that should be able to derive consistent, provable, and practically relevant conclusions about its own purpose, sense, evolution, and current state.