Medical and biological cybernetics: development prospects

Life sciences advanced greatly in molecular and cell research for the last 40–50 years. However, the system-oriented approach lags behind. Since the times of N. Wiener, cybernetics switched to specific problems and ceased to be the primary science for studying complex systems. We believe the reason for this is the general crisis of deterministic and stochastic approaches to living systems. The revival of medical and biological cybernetics as a science of control in biological systems is possible only through a new understanding of the regulation and operation principles of any complex biosystems. Such a new understanding should be based on new principles of biosystem regulation, as chaos and repetitive processes shall prevail over deterministic certainty or stochastic uncertainty. A special role in this revival of interest in cybernetics is given to the new chaos-self-organization theory, which is now being developed by several teams in Moscow, Tula, Samara, and Surgut. This new area of research is based on the Eskov–Zinchenko effect (lack of statistical robustness of any human body properties) and new models of the biosystem state vector behavior $x=x(t)=(x_{12}, x_{21},\dots, x_{m})^{T}$ in the phase state space.