... The philosophical consequences of synergetics, the interdisciplinary theory of evolution and self-organization of complex systems, are being drawn in the paper. ... Key words: complex systems, evolution, nonlinearity, pre-determination, self-organization, soft management, structure-attractors, synergetics 1. ... The spectra of possible, `allowed' structures correspond to sets of the eigenfunctions of the nonlinear equations describing the evolutionary processes in the complex system. ...