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Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg figures there could be a formula that explains how people think. During a wide-ranging online question-and-answer session on his Facebook page Tuesday, Zuckerberg told famed physicist Stephen Hawking he would like to find that equation.
"I'm most interested in questions about people," Zuckerberg said in a written chat forum response to Hawking asking what big questions in science he would like to know the answers to. Zuckerberg responded with a list that included how the brain works and immortality.
"I'm also curious about whether there is a fundamental mathematical law underlying human social relationships that governs the balance of who and what we all care about," Zuckerberg added. "I bet there is."
http://phys.org/news/2015-07-facebook-zuckerberg-figure-social-equation.html
Will Zuckerberg be a real life Hari Seldon ? Does SN think there can be a social equation ? If yes, can that equation be formulated in a way that can cater to all (or majority) of social relationships ?
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(Score: 2) by GoonDu on Thursday July 02 2015, @01:48AM
>We all process stimuli and inputs differently.
I agree to that to a certain extent, we all use the same wetware after all, just configured differently so there is a lot of similarities between us. Therefore, we can probably come out with a model that can predict to a certain degree on how we behave (granted, it will have a shit load of variables). Population wise, we can probably come out with a model on how population under certain culture work, considering the fact that humans can generalise a certain culture and understand what is socially acceptable in it.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Thursday July 02 2015, @03:08AM
A person can be unpredictable. People are predictable.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek