ABSTRACT
A general goal of human activity is to make changes in the surrounding reality in such a way that it will be more convenient for human beings. This change should be done optimallyif possible-and one of its purposes is to satisfy human needs. In order to attain this goal, humans develop processes by making use of their knowledge and using appropriately selected and constructed technical objects. A general requirement in designing these objects is to have some knowledge of the target process-the process that will be generated using the constructed object. But this is not enough. For a good and proper design of the object (and, further, in order to attain the determined purpose), it is necessary to have some knowledge of the changes in the properties of the object that will be observed during the realisation of this target process. This knowledge is necessary to achieve the goal. If such a process is not controlled, it will lead to the object’s disorganisation according to the second law of thermodynamics. In effect, it is very likely that the goal will not be attained or will not be completely achieved. Thus, getting to know the regularities that govern the course of a process is a vital problem from the point of view of human activity.
