This article highlights the Philosophy of Instability developed by Nobel Laureate Mr. Ilya Prigogine emphasizing its application to complex systems particularly human world [1, 2, 3]

The Philosophy of Instability is a generalization of the qualitative changes that have occurred in modern conceptions of nature, society, and the human being. Within this framework, culture and creativity are perceived as manifestations of the fundamental laws of the universe, and the human is seen as a co-creator of nature. The human is an active participant in global evolution, and the mechanism by which he makes decisions is inseparable from the expression of free will. That expression of free will - precondition for the existence of the human world in which innovation and creativity are possible—without separating humanity from nature, but rather uniting them. To support humanity evolution everything that stands in the way of the free human will expression shall be sweep away.

This perspective helps explain why humanity evolved successfully over 300,000 years, yet within just the past 225 years has approached the unimaginable brink of self-destruction. The explanation lies in modern science: human society—an open, complex, stochastically fluctuating, unstable, unpredictable, uncontrollable dynamic system—can naturally enter periods of developmental instability due to random fluctuations and unpredictable choices. At the end of the worldwide Agricultural Revolution, which began 10,000 years ago and marked the prehistory of the modern era, a critical fluctuation emerged — a deviation toward a flawed path characterized by slavery and the suppression by the social structure of core human values. This fluctuation violated the symmetry of human evolution and, as a result, led to a growing chaos of instability that reached a turning point during the Industrial Revolution 225 years ago. At that time was developed increasing chaotic instability and situation began to appear truly threatening. Fortunately, our society, as demonstrated by scientific research, functions as a self-organizing system that overcomes and restores order from the chaos of instability through inherent human properties. As discussed in this article, these properties are humanity’s intrinsic forces—driving a striving toward more stable development by harnessing based inherent internal humanity’s p...

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