Big History and Evolutionary Culturology
Abstract
Big History unifies human knowledge across time, identifying eight major threshold events where new forms of complexity emerge. It thus presents a powerful (and awe-inspiring) narrative of emergence, over deep time. A useful addition to the Big History toolkit is a formal, testable systems meta-meta-science, which can be used to analyze, synthesize, and model the underlying units, and their dynamics (function/behavior), across all the domains Big History examines. Evolutionary Culturology (Ev Cult) provides such scientific tools. As a transdisciplinary (all-disciplinary) meta-meta-science, Ev Cult synthesizes the meta-sciences, including Systems Science (and Complexity Science), Information and Communication Science, Cultural Evolution Science, Creativity Science and more, offering a standardized universal, or one-size-fits-all, scientific toolkit, that operates across all domains - physical, chemical, astronomical, geological, biological, psychological, sociological, anthropological, cultural, and technological, even rendering the units in the Arts/Humanities scientifically measurable and countable. Ev Cult defines the fractal HOLON/parton as the universal unit (of: information, and energy, and matter), governed by three universal laws of systemic behavior/function: (1) integration upward/outward, (2) cooperation/competition laterally with peer units, and (3) control/command, downward/inward. These three simple scientific laws enable a computable, fractal model of evolution…
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