What Does History Suggest?

The pre historic ape man had an edge over the other animals in terms of the ability to think and communicate. The collective awareness and knowledge built up since then has helped the society evolve, consciously or naturally, arguably in a better direction. There exists a physical world and then this virtual world of collective awareness which together forms this society*. History suggests both evolve over time.

Some observations to support this hypothesis of evolution:

• Structure of societies along with constitution and legal systems evolve (feudal, autocratic, democratic)
• Economy evolves (from exchange of goods to currencies to era of globalization)
• Religions, art forms, natural science, philosophies and all human awareness attributes evolve

A lot of thinkers and philosophers have tried to understand this historical evolution, discover patterns and extrapolate these patterns to predict the path of evolution in various fields be it politics, be it society of be it behaviour of a stock market.

Question that remains is, are there any recognisable pattern?

This entire writing is a quest to find answer to this question. All contributions and views are welcome.

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*Note: Looks like I am omitting biological or genetic evolution. Yes biology can claim responsibility of various social aspects - it is already considered as a part of the physical universe. And our knowledge of biology is part of our awareness.

Searching for Universal Patterns

We humans are complex beings. The society we share with each other is even more so. We many times fail to have a common view of things. Starting with international politics to stock markets to all human societies, all demonstrate this complexity. Starting from Aristotle to Kant to Soros to most thinkers till date have searched for an answer to explain nature, human nature, our society, economy and much more. Even Management Guru's of the modern world are searching for various patterns and getting lost in a maze where no universal law ever exists.
There are two reasons behind my interest in the subject

1. I strongly believe that there exists a science which can explain the complex system called society and its elements. Humankind can find answers to many intriguing questions once the laws of Sociodynamics are understood. Our progress in this discipline is primitive, perhaps stuck at 2000 BC if compared to other natural science disciplines.

2. Corporations, Governments and every other organization of human beings I believe have close link with Sociodynamics and hence can be understood with greater depth if we understood Sociodynamics

I would like to refer to a formal definition of Sociodynamics below. It is not pure or something that I completely agree with. However it is something for a start. 

A definition of Sociodynamics:..... Sociodynamics is about the changes all societies are experiencing. Sociodynamics attempts to become eventually a science that studies the basic phenomena underlying the dynamics of the phenomena occurring in a society. It draws on the belief that all phenomena on earth are interconnected. That is, that mathematics may explain physics, that physics underlies chemistry, that chemistry and physics form the base for the understanding of biology, and that sociology and psychology are but an appendage of biology, the science for the study of the living. No rational being can doubt that we humans are in all aspects animals. Thus, the study of a specific species of animal may be a science in itself, as for example Anthropology is the science for the study of Homo sapience, but it still forms part of the more general science of the living, biology. This logic applies the more so to more specific sciences such as the one dedicated only to the study of social interactions among individuals of a single species, Sociology, or the one studying only a single type of interactions among individuals of a single species, such as Economy. Yet, the fact at present is that a huge gap separates the natural sciences (mathematics, physics, chemistry and perhaps in our days biology), and the so-called social sciences (anthropology, archeology, sociology, psychology, economy).
Bridging the gap between the mind of a natural scientist and a social one is one of the aims of sociodynamics. May be, a fruitful first attempt is building a bridge between biology and economy, as both sciences have become science very depended on mathematics, and thus the creation of a common language seems more feasible. The second step could be the inclusion of sociology into this melting pot. Then we might be ripe for the development of a mathematical formulation of the dynamics underlying the social phenomena.......
By CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS ESTRATÉGICOS (CEE) [http://www.cee.usb.ve/]