The law of supersystem overreaction and the extreme principle

The article’s subject of study is the extreme principle, according to which the system behaves in such a way that some value characterizing its activity takes an extreme (minimum or maximum) possible value. The content of the extreme principle, its formulations, as well as a special case of its manifestation in the form of the principle of least action are considered. The connection between the extreme principle, on the one hand, and primary properties and basic laws of being, on the other hand, is revealed. The sought connection can be built through the law of supersystems overreaction formulated by the author in the previous paper, which is one of the primary laws of being and is determined from the analysis of evolution at the lowest level of material structures. The dissipative nature of all existing real systems means their existence at the expense of supersystems’ resources and determines the limitations of behavior, which in the framework of epistemology can be formalized in the form of an extreme principle.