Faced with external reality, any individual builds and operates some models to
predict the evolution of the external reality. The majority of the population
is based on image models. One of the organization principles of the human
society is:
The majority is seldom right.
This principle is a direct consequence of reflecting the external reality
based on image models.
The evolution of society means that there is a dynamic (a continuous change in
time). But, as we already know, it is very hard to change a structure of
models.
A second principle states that:
The persons who are able to lead the society must be changed from time to
time, even if they seem to be able to lead the evolution process.
The first principle says that a team of "symbolic" qualified persons should
elect the leading persons, and the second principle says that such persons
must be changed from time to time.
The present democratic society is based on these principles, as MDT just
explained why.
When in a situation associated with the evolution of the society, a decision
has to be taken; on image models, the decision is based on feelings, or
impressions, or some local models. On a symbolic model, such a decision is
based on parameters and their associated values. So, the importance of every
element or relationship is controllable.
Example: there is a law of the propagation of errors in mathematics. It says
how much the result of a formula is changed when a term is changed, let's say,
e.g. by 1%. The importance of every element or relationship is given in a very
precise way.
In future (not in the next 50 years, I guess), there will be a single symbolic
model associated to the society. Such a model will be able to characterize the
society in the same way as the mechanical world is characterized by Newton's
model.
Based on simulation, it will be possible to predict the evolution of the
society, based on some basic decision. The population will have to know these
predictions and choose one or another based on its short-range and long-range
interest.
It is supposed that in some very advanced countries such models already exist.
The main problem is that the political parties and the population are on a
general evolution level that is too low for a "symbolic" understanding of the
society.
ETA 19: The schizophrenic-paranoiac complex (XSPC).
XSPC is described only associated to non-pathological schizophrenic persons
(XS1-type).
Based on MDT, schizophrenia means a reduced ability to build and operate long-
range models.
XS1 schizophrenia is a non-pathological form, which is associated with the
activity of a large fraction of the population in a normal society.
Paranoia XP means that there is an ordinary model in the protection structure
of models. Such an OMPSM forces a person to distort the importance of the
primary facts to be accepted by OMPSM.
Thus, an XS1-type person is not able to build long-range models, but he/she is
able to build short-range models. The result is that such a person has a large
number of short-range models, which are associated with almost all the
features of the external reality. A XS1 person is able to integrate into a
society, often in very good positions.
Schizophrenics can't build efficient long-range models, but can build very
good short-range models. The incapacity of building long-range model means
that they have many uncorrelated short-range models. When they are forced to
couple/correlate several models, as they haven't got the capacity to do it,
they will distort the correlation between them. It happens in the same way as
for paranoiac persons, but for schizophrenics, paranoia is induced
dynamically. (At different moments, there are different distortions). This is
XSPC.
The present educational system has the tendency to create schizophrenic
persons with XSPC symptoms. XSPC is generated by the classical educational
system, where lessons are based on elements, without insisting on the
relationship between elements. The capacity to make on one's own such
correlation is not favoured by the educational system. As in school the
construction on long-range models is not taught, the persons will lose more
and more this ability. Thus, school, at all levels, favours the occurence of
XS1B, and also XSPC, in perfectly sane children. This characterizes school all
over the world.
Application: Let's build the full history of Europe, for secondary school
level, in a normal lesson of 50 minutes.
The main problem is to select what is important and what is not. The normal
solution is to make a long-range model and to declare it in an explicit form.
Such a model will be able to select, in a coherent mode, what is important and
what not.
There is a development history of the human species in this book. This history
is based on a long-range model, which says that all the evolution of the human
species is based on the continuous increase of the power of the symbolic
models. Thus, this model is able to select what is important and what not.
Some people could have other ideas. There is no problem. They must declare
their long-range model and make another history. In every situation, there
will be a correlation between the short-range models, which are the elements
of the long-range model. This is the normal situation, according to MDT.
Conclusion: XS1 persons are based on a large collection of short-range models,
which are built by direct interaction with the external reality. When such
persons are forced to connect some models in between them (to cover a larger
section of the external reality), they are forced to connect such independent
models. This can be done only by the distorsion of some models to fit with one
another. But, this is similar with the behavior of a paranoiac person. This is
XSPC (paranoiac behaviour due to a schizophrenic structure of models).
ETA 20: Induced paranoia (XIP) and paranoiac-schizophrenic complex (XPSC).
XIP affects normal persons who are forced to use a basic model in every
situation.
E.g. the members of the Communist parties are forced to accept that the
"working class" is the leader of the society. This model is not in PSM (the
person has no illness) but, they are forced to use this model.
This externally-imposed model determines that any data from external reality
should be compatible with the externally-imposed model. Their structure of
models evolves in a paranoiac-type structure (it is not possible to discuss
freely with such persons).
A "soft" form of XIP occurs in people that are representatives of a state
institution.
For the XP paranoiac persons (there is an OMPSM), the external data could
collide with the OMPSM. The solution for them is to distort any external
information to be compatible with their OMPSM. But, in a complex structure of
external realities, this method cannot work (it is not possible anymore to
build a harmonic/logic structure of models by distorsion). The only solution
is to fragment the data. This means that the same facts from external reality
have a different interpretation depending on the environment. This is XPSC.
Conclusion: a paranoiac structure of models evolves to schizophrenia too, as
the external reality is more and more complex.