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Social System Framework and Causal History: Part I, Learning Processes

This paper aims to begin to construct a framework for developing “causal history.” By causal history I mean the understanding (and not just the depicting) of processes that take place in space and time which bear upon the historic record of man’s habitation of the planet Earth. Implicit is the assumption that, in the narrow sense, causes of these processes can be discovered-whether these processes are broad sweeping and take place over centuries or are much shorter and pertain to day-today decisions of significant moment. Viewed in the above manner, causal history is only part of the larger set of processes taking place over time and space, which is usually taken to constitute evolution. Evolution covers both adaptation (nonmotivated behavior) and motivated behavior. According to the synthetic theory of evolution and its recent extensions, the forms and structures of matter (including human societies) that have survived at any point of time and space are those that have met the competition. It would be extremely convenient if we could limit causal history to processes generated by motivated behavior, were we able to define that concept. But we cannot. Motivated behavior takes place in an environment where adaptation (and hence change) is omnipresent. Therefore, such change must be taken into account when we try to understand and then desirably forecast motivated behavior and the processes consequent to it. Nonetheless, as a working definition we can narrow our exceedingly difficult task and view causal history as motivated behavior within a setting of constant, ongoing adaptations. The realm of motivated behavior is not only immense, but complex beyond description. All that any one can legitimately aspire to do is to