Towards a Unified Social Science (A Perspective from the Santa Fe Institute)

Author: (USA) Jin Dis, (USA) Baows, et al. Translated by the Interdisciplinary Social Science Research Center of Zhejiang University
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Publish Date: 2005-10-01
Features: While natural sciences have achieved unification through quantum mechanics, particle physics, solid-state physics, and the Big Bang model, social sciences—or the study of human behavior—have long presented a fragmented and contradictory state over a long period. This clearly does not align with the logical requirements of science and has also added many obstacles to in-depth cross-disciplinary research. Based on recent advancements in deepening game theory, the controllable experiments of the rational agent model, we seem to be able to attempt to outline a universal model of individual behavior and build a preliminary unified framework, establishing fundamental core principles for the entire social science.