| Summary: | A psychoanthropological barrier exists between the group formulations that characterize social psychology, sociology, and ethnology and the subjective reasoning that characterizes individual modes of thought. More apparent, but just as formidable, are the epistemological differences that separate researchers within each of the scientific disciplines. As a result, humanities, behavioral sciences, and biological sciences in general, and general systems in particular, do not have the connectivity required for the broad unified approach that is prerequisite to applying multidisciplinary research to complex social, personal, ethnic, and gender problems. The writer considers M. Eigen and R. Winkler's game theory optimization, which in combination with recent developments in mathematics, microgenetics, and ethnology, makes it possible to integrate the social physics of Nicolas Rashevsky and the game theory formulations of Anatol Rapoport to produce Synchrony, a unified approach, which although not a seamless web, comes as near to one as is theoretically possible.
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