The dynamics of ‘‘vicious,’’ continuously growing civilizations ~domains!, which engage in ‘‘war’’ whenever two domains meet, is investigated. In the war event, the smaller domain is annihilated, while the larger domain is reduced in size by a fraction e of the casualties of the loser. Here e quantifies the fairness of the war, with e51 corresponding to a fair war with equal casualties on both ...

The motif throughout is the author's axiom that our ability to perform to capacity depends upon our relations with other humans and not on sheer skill or dexterity. He urges that the effect of intimate human contacts upon the nervous system is becoming a serious problem now that civilisation has rendered the race so highly sensitive. He points out that just as social knowledge led the way to th...

Iranian civilization is one of the oldest and most influential civilizations of history, and Iran as the origin of Persian civilization, has been ruled by numerous states throughout history. Some of them, while enjoying considerable glory and high level of economic and political power, have sometimes been declined and finally overthrown. Having these points in mind, the main questions are prese...

This journey started in 1950 at Antioch College when I wrote a required Life Aims paper to make a comparative study of East and West in philosophy, religion, art, literature, and the social sciences. In 1977 I went to India on a grant for clinical psychoanalytic research to assess the psychological effects of Westernization on Indians, to ascertain differences in configurations of the self from...

Multicultural situations are not a new phenomenon in the World history : in the Middle East and the Mediterranean World, a multiplicity of cultures coexisted in rural areas as well as in cities since Antiquity. From the time of Alexander the Great, Greek speaking urban elites dominated lower groups pertaining to a wide variety of languages, religions and cultural traditions from Egypt to Centra...

In this paper we consider the clash between the pre-scripted character of much narrative and the freedom afforded by a Virtual Environment. We discuss the concept of emergent narrative as a possible way of avoiding this clash. We examine the role of a VE user in a narrative and consider the concept of social presence as a means of reconciling the freedom of the user with the constraints of an e...

The concept of civilizations dialogue has emerged relatively recently but undergone a number changes during its existence. Not to mention the fact that there is no consensus in scientific community on what exactly should be considered as civilizations. However, it obvious have been and still exist mutual relations between peoples belonging different civilizations, those that, general, fall unde...