re: Math Models/What Would Psycho-History "Look Like?" en>fr fr>en By mrkoconnell Comments: 22, member since Fri May 27, 2005On Thu Jul 20, 2006 09:30 AM
In the last year, I have revised much of my approach to Psychohistory, in particular the systems approach. My first real attempt at modeling Psychohistory used what I referred to as a multi-disciplinary systems approach for which I coined the term the “unified theory of humanity.” The Unified Theory of Humanity was an idealistic attempt to combine ‘all of the sciences’ into one ‘grand’ scheme. Einstein and his “Unified Field Theory” inspired it but the conceptual analogy has run into problems; this is a deprecated concept in my present theoretical framework. Due to significant problems (that being it did not work), I dropped this ‘systems framework’ and went almost entirely to a software engineering approach. The approach relies upon a “solution framework” that models human societies, looking at different parts working together-and you may ask ‘isn’t this a systems approach?’ and the term could be used like this. A system in this sense is more like a network layout where services are connected and provided over a link to users. My problem with a strict approach like this is in development of models, the network type of approach using mostly existing services. I used a solution framework approach because it is concerned more with the development side of a system. Psychohistory needs model design, development, and a clear direction as well. I have borrowed (from software again) an open architecture approach that (hopefully) allows for additional model development over time. |