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PHILOSOPHY,SCIENCE AND MAN 15 ing of the fundamental philosophical principles of man’s attitude to the world such as the principle of the material unity of the world, the principle of its development and the principle of contradiction as a source of development Some philosophical categories also require a new interpretation, such as the subjective and the objective, necessity and chance, possibility and reality, and also practice, activity, creativity New philosophical principles and categories may be introduced and some general scientific notions may be granted a philosophical status We have in mind not the further elaboration and certain renovation of each philosophical principle and category separately but the establishment of such an interconnection between all of them, which would express the methodology and logic of present-day scientific knowledge in the most adequate way We have in mind the development of integrative synthetic trends in science, and the establishment of dialectical connections between different scientific disciplines, each of which is oriented to the problem of man in its certain aspects Philosophical-methodological knowledge is organically included in scientific research and provides conditions for a successful solution of special tasks Take, for example, informatics Its range of problems includes the study of the mechanisms of the coding, translation, storage and use of the most diverse types of human knowledge Modem informatics not only studies the processes of the coding and processing of information, but also analyses its cognitive value The specific problems of informatics connected with an analysis of the information concepts of knowledge, their transmission and creative reconstruction are closely related to the philosophical problems of the social nature of knowledge, the interrelationships of individual and social consciousness, and the forms and methods of the preservation of knowledge in culture Philosophical elaboration of these epistemological and methodological problems contributes to a synthesis of the natural scientific and socio-humanitarian aspects of modem informatics A typical feature of science today is the inclusion of its humanitarian component into modem natural and technical sciences which is revealed, for instance, in a radical change in the character of engineering activity, which is gradually being transformed from the traditional field of projecting and creating new technical means into projecting and creating the integral complexes of human activity It is no longer the machine but the man-machine system, with its emphasis on the human factor, that is becoming an object of present-day engineering A complex of ergonomic, ecological, social and psychological parameters should be taken into