Innovative complexity from the standpoint of enactivism

Abstract

The phenomenon of innovative complexity is under consideration in this article. The methods applied are based on contemporary theory of complex adaptive systems as well as on the conception of enactive cognition (enactivism) in cognitive science and in non-classical epistemology. From this methodological point of view, one can assert that properties of a complex system and of a medium in which it is built in and within which it functions, mutually determine each other. Complexity, emergence, activity, innovation potential of the system and of its medium are reciprocal properties which appear in their interaction. The system is determined by the medium and creates its own medium which, in its turn, influences backwards on the system and constructs it.