Human Model

By Issam Wadi

In Human Model, Dr. Issam Wadi summarises and explains more than 40 years of professional and academic research into human and social behaviour. He examines important aspects in our lives by showing how human and social systems are deeply influenced by universal, natural processes. He shows how research in the natural and social sciences can help to illuminate complex human processes, using friction theory to explain how human beings relate to one another, how resonance theory provides us with a better understanding of mass behaviour, advertising, and marketing, and how feedback theory explains human behaviour from a management perspective.

Drawing these parallels between natural and human systems helps to illustrate the way that human beings are embedded within larger, natural processes, as well as supplying a much clearer and easy to understand approach for readers and researchers. With the starting blocks in place, one can then begin to use proven scientific theories and social models to develop more sophisticated analyses and studies of complex social behaviour, from mass movements and crowd psychology to financial markets and economic forecasting.

This book is an important milestone in the modelling and understanding of human social behaviour and aims to contribute both to a broader mainstream understanding of these fields and further research through these versatile social modelling tools. Human Model also explains the author’s own ‘Zero Sum Theory’ for explaining happiness in life and how this can be affected by the individual’s own mental models, while providing further reflections on the impact of technology on modern life, social behaviour, the family, and society more broadly.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Release date: Jun 23, 2023
• ISBN: 9781398496200

Issam Wadi

Issam Wadi, professional with over forty four years in business, technology, industrial plants and academic work, combining a diversity of knowledge and expertise including in process modelling, technology applications and Digital Transformation. Author of many articles in international journals, a book titled, The Last Drop and speaker at many international conferences and forums.

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About the Author

Issam Wadi, professional with over forty four years in business, technology, industrial plants and academic work, combining a diversity of knowledge and expertise including in process modelling, technology applications and Digital Transformation. Author of many articles in international journals, a book titled, The Last Drop and speaker at many international conferences and forums.

Dedication

To my beloved granddaughter, Haya

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Acknowledgement

It has been now over eight years, since I started writing this book. It was the end of two decades of thinking and observing, about this topic, which occupied me since the early days of my youth. Questions related to definition of what is real happiness? Are we all treated fairly and equally? And difference between; absolute happiness, material happiness, spiritual happiness and short-term joy? Then this brought me to come up with my theory about happiness, called Our Life a Zero Sum, whereby I reached a conclusion that every one of us will be treated fairly and squarely by the time our life ends (w.r.t. material happiness). I applied the laws of energy and material balance, I used and applied successfully in my long industrial profession to other processes, which are also applied in many processes and systems, in this universe. I applied them here to material happiness in our lives, concluding that we are all treated in absolute justice, if we consider the net cumulative material input/output of each one of us, by the end of life, done in a cumulative and balanced way (Our Life is a Zero Sum). Such theory will not be valid unless, we agree that what is balanced is not the absolute value of material inputs (e.g., good health, money, family etc.) and outputs (e.g., illness, financial losses, etc.), but the relative value of each Input/Output, determined by the model of each one of us, which is unique to each person. Hence, came the idea of Human Model and how we can build such model, in a more rigorous and scientific way, which is important, not only to understand and achieve real happiness, but also better understanding of mass and human behaviours. Hence, started comparing several science and physics theories and phenomenon, such as friction theory, resonance theory, feedback theory to human behavioural issues, such as human relations, marketing, uprisings, management systems etc. After my initial research, I decided to write about both my way of understanding and defining happiness in the context of a human model, which after further research and building analogies, between natural and physical systems vs human and social systems, I found huge similarities, which encouraged me to research and write about new ways to study and build human and social behavioural models. I hope that this work will be the first building block m, for further research to achieve more advanced and more versatile human and social models for more complex and diversified problems and challenges in all sectors. I also examined the application and impact of new technologies, such as AI, Metaverse, etc. on our life, including family, work, behavioural issues and others. I hope that readers and humanity will find benefits in this work. Finally, I would like to thank many people, who helped me while researching and writing this book. I would like to thank my sons, Walid, Ghazi, Basil, Mohammed and my daughters Dima and Noor Al Huda, who have been always inspiring and encouraging me. Thanks to my office staff, Venita, Ron and Sakthi, who played important role in organizing and formatting the manuscript of this book, as and when needed. Also, and as usual, with every hard initiative and challenge, I take in my life, thanks to my beloved wife, Shahnaz for her support and encouragement, similarly to my elder brother Ghazi and my cousin Dr Naser, who are always beside me when I am involved in new challenges. I would also like to use this opportunity to thank all who taught me something in my professional career and gave me a hand to progress. Thank you very much, everyone! Issam Wadi Abu Dhabi-UAE- May 2022

Glossary

1.0 Introduction

Since my youth days, I was occupied with questions related to human behaviour, including the true definition of happiness, drivers of happiness, spiritual happiness versus material happiness, why people are different and many more. I was always asking myself questions, like:

How can we become happier?

Why some people seem luckier, hence happier than others? Are they really happier?

Is life fair to every one of us?

Is happiness sustainable?

Can money buy happiness?

Do drivers of happiness change with time?

Is happiness balanced in our life only or balanced between this life and the other life?

For many years and until my early 40s, I always believed that life is fair to every one of us, provided it is evaluated, considering both lives on earth and after death i.e., those who suffer in this life are compensated in the other life, hence overall we all get fair treatment at the end. However, and after years of thinking, researching and observing different human cases, including myself, within family, friends, colleagues and others, in different times, phases of life and in several locations and countries, spanning from South East Asia to Canada, Europe, Middle East and USA, I came to the conclusion that we are all treated fairly in this life w.r.t. the net material inputs/outputs balance during life journey (inputs here imply gains which add to material happiness while outputs reduce it), as experienced by each one on this earth. Hence, our life, w.r.t. material happiness is (at the end of it) a ‘zero sum’. This theory is explained in chapter 17.0, in more details. One of the key arguments to prove my theory, is to agree that each one of us has a different model with different characteristics and parameters, so its reaction and dealings with internal and external influencers, including material input/output, varies from a person to another e.g. person A may have a model that in case of a material loss (output) like having simple headache, the same is so exaggerated by his model (called in industrial processes, a high gain sensitive process model), so the net outcome and impact on his behaviour (in this case reaction to illness), is equal or more than person B having a serious illness (material output), like suffering of cancer, but attenuated by his model, which has high adaptability and less sensitivity coefficient (using industrial process terms), so its net reflection on his happiness is minimal. Then, comes the other concept, called relative weight or actual value of each influence or impact, as is discussed in chapter 17.0.

Above big question motivated me, later in my career and life, to study human behaviour, using my engineering and science training and way of addressing problems, both as a professional engineer and academician. I started comparing human and social behaviour to industrial processes behaviour, where I noticed huge similarity, analogy and resemblance, in the way they both behave and react to internal and external influences

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Human Model by Dr. Issam Wadi makes understanding human behavior a breeze with science. If you're curious about how we work and how technology affects us, this book is a must-read!