TIMES FEMININE ARROW - A BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGICAL ASSAULT ON CULTURAL AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL BARRIERS

Like a powerful, hardly perceptible wall, the psychoanthropological ba rrier lies between the group formulations that characterize social psy chology, sociology, and ethnology and the subjective reasoning that ch aracterize individual modes of thought. More obviously, but equally as formidable, are the epistemological differences separating researcher s within each of the scientific disciplines. As a consequence, humanit ies, behavioral sciences and biological sciences in General, and gener al systems in particular, lack the connectivity necessary for the broa d unified approach that is prerequisite to applying multidisciplinary research to complex social, personal, ethnic, and gender problems. Eig en & Winkler's game theory optimization, together with recent developm ents in mathematics, microgenetics and ethnology, make it possible to integrate the social physics of Nicolas Rashevsky and the game theory formulations of Anatol Rapoport to produce Synchrony, a unified approa ch, which though not a seamless web, comes as close to a seamless web as is theoretically possible. But in accepting Synchrony, behavioral s cientists must first learn to play GO, then adopt the concepts of dual cognition, dual time scales, self-reference, chance and necessity. Ph ilosophers and ethnologists must deal with ecological ''optimizations' ' of ethics and cultures. And, finally, as far as groups are concerned , all will have to give up permanent hierarchies, adopt a ''feminine'' mode of reasoning as optimal, then accept behavioral science's role o f ''Guardian of Time's Feminine Arrow.