A Bird's Eye View In A Nutshell of An Ultra-Condensed Future History

Question And Answer, CHAPTER V.

The science of human behaviour cannot be as precise as the physical sciences because the coupling between observer and observed generates an uncertainty principle. Games theory was used in military work before World War III. Later, large computers analysed the theory of complex phenomena like business, making economics more comprehensible. Communications theory was applicable to human beings as symbolising animals. All of this plus the least effort axiom facilitated the construction of a mathematical and paramathematical system in which elements like potentials and gradients can be equated with observable phenomena so that theorems can be derived. Checking theorems remains difficult because of confused conditions and because controlled experiments on human beings are impossible but data confirm current theories. Economic cycles have become predictable. In North America, propagandists and admen provoked a reaction against them, leading to military defeat. Mentally blinkered commissars did not investigate beyond their outmoded dogmatic ideology. Liberators seeking only power became as unpopular as the deposed commissars. The warlords of the Interregnum used some psychomilitary analysts but their work was not applied widely enough. In the theocratic period, the Mongku Empire was such a challenge that research was encouraged:

"'...and the first politicomathematical analyses were performed.'" (p. 42)

Venus took over, ousting the theocrats. Then thorough research produced the field and tensor approach of formulated psychodynamics which:

"'...was used to bring on the Mars-Venus war and unify the Solar System.'" (ibid.)

The psychman, Avery, summarizes a future history:

games theory in military work

World War III

commissars

liberators

Interregnum warlords

theocracy versus Mongku Empire

Venus takeover

Mars-Venus war

Solar unification

- and the development of psychodynamics:

games theory

computer analysis

communications theory

the least effort axiom

a mathematical and paramathematical system

testable theorems

predictive economics

psychomilitary analysis

politicomathematical analyses

formulated psychodynamics

The biologist Umfanduma asks the key question. He understands advances in neurology but what has been learned about man as man not just:

"'...as a biophysical mechanism?'" (p. 40)

Umfanduma is talking about the distinction between objectivity and subjectivity. Can anyone understand how the former generates the latter?

See also here.