Solar Cycles, Light, Sex Hormones and the Life Cycles of Civilization: Toward Integrated Chronobiology

Authors

  • Roy Barzilai Independent scholar

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23756/sp.v7i2.483

Keywords:

cultural evolution, social psychology, sex hormones

Abstract

The emerging discipline of complexity science, applied to the social sciences, seeks to study the rise of human civilization as a part of a natural, evolving biological system that exploits energy resources to fuel its growth into a complex social system. In order to understand the whole system, the reductionist approach, typical to Western science, must be supplanted. The atomistic study of various scientific fields as separate mechanical parts of the system must be broadened, creating a more holistic view of human culture as an integral part of larger universal process of evolution and creation. In this article I wish to integrate the various scientific fields, including physics, chronobiology (studying the effect of solar cycles on biological growth), biology, evolutionary psychology, and the social sciences, to achieve a unified understanding of our cultural evolution.

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Author Biography

  • Roy Barzilai, Independent scholar

    Roy Barzilai is an independent scholar, who studied both Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism and Rivka Schechter’s philosophy of language, rooted in the Hebrew Bible. The synthesis of Rand’s Aristotelian philosophy, and the biblical creed of ethical monotheism provides profound insights into the ideas that shaped the Western mind. By exploring the intellectual history of Western civilization, Roy seeks to reach a greater understanding of the human mind.

    As a financial analyst for more than a decade, Roy became aware of the herd mentality in financial markets. He studied the Wave Principle of Human Social Behavior and the new science of Socionomics, focusing on how change in social mood affects society, its ideas, philosophy, culture, and economy. This dynamism is the engine of history.

    Roy holds undergraduate degrees from Tel Aviv University in Law, accounting, and computer science.

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2019-12-30

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Vol. 7 No. 2 (2019)

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Volume 7 Issue 2 2019

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