Win-win Theory for Win-win Success

THE INTELLECTUAL INVENTION THAT SURPASSES ALL OTHERS AS THE MOST BENEFICIAL ADVANCE OF HUMAN HISTORY IS RARELY UNDERSTOOD OR APPRECIATED BY EDUCATED ADULTS. With dire consequences for such neglect, there has been no applause for this wondrous invention, no gratitude for its beneficence, no monuments to hail its priceless influence. Largely overlooked, ignored, or taken for granted, this uncelebrated masterpiece of unrivaled creation goes by the familiar name of the scientific method. But if its name is familiar, its method is not. It would be hard to find one in a hundred college graduates who could explain the essence of the scientific method and why its reliability as a beacon of truth eclipses all nonscientific methods claiming to reveal physical, biological, and social causality. Without fanfare to trumpet its completion in the seventeenth century as the seminal breakthrough—the revolutionary strategy—to uncover the true causes of natural events, the scientific method became the most powerful method ever devised to discover physical and biological reality in nature. Due to its spectacular success over time at finding truer and truer causes of physical and biological effects, this unique strategy has proven to be our foremost intellectual asset for solving difficult to near impossible physical and biological problems. Not to be confused with any other intellectual method, the scientific method of causality identification has blazed the path for physical and biological progress. From hydraulics to electronics, from agriculture to medicine, its striking advances have spurred physical and biological revolutions—one upon the other—with no end in sight. Regrettably, at the same time—and in striking contrast—the quest for social progress and revolutionary social advance has stalled. Why hasn’t science been able to overcome the social blight of pervasive war, endemic poverty, and rampant servitude that plagues the people on every settled continent? With all its proven prowess at solving even the most difficult and stubborn physical and biological problems, is the scientific method destined to fail at attenuating and ending the continuum of social crises and afflictions? To counter conventional pessimism on the impotency of science to solve social problems, win-win theory reveals that natural law does not bar the scientific method from becoming our foremost intellectual asset for solving social problems. Win-win theory is built on the premise that the potential of the scientific method to identify and verify the true causes of our most pressing social problems has been barely explored. As in solving physical and biological problems, the scientific method also has the versatility to solve difficult to seemingly impossible social problems by first identifying their true causes. With the enlightenment that only follows truer and truer identification of cause-andeffect (causality), the foundation is set to create and verify solutions to the long history of stubborn and unyielding social problems. Happily, others before us—notably Galileo and Newton—solved the supreme difficulty of completing the dynamic strategy of the scientific method of causality identification. But compared to their historic breakthrough of perfecting the scientific