Аннотация:Abstract: The process of cognition is a relentless search for new methods and approaches to the knowledge of a complex, diverse world. The vector of the development of the cognitive apparatus is aimed at the knowledge of a more complex, interrelated, interdependent world, the formation of new methods of methodological guidelines. Increasing complexity of the surrounding world poses a problem on what the behavior of complex systems depends? The concept of self-organization, emerged as an interdisciplinary approach, shows that in the world all are interconnected, interdependent. This article analyzes the problems of self-organization in the process of cognition (epistemology).