A rendition of the basic “island model”, wherein, originally, one man B and one woman A are stranded on a deserted island, having been that way for some time, and therein having established a certain “relationship”, symbolized by the relationship bond “≡”, quantified by certain bond energy, the scenario representative of the “initial state”. In this model, the people are the “reactants” or "chemicals" (or human chemicals), the surface of the island is the “substrate”, and the air and surrounding water is the “reaction milieu” (ΡΊ) or reaction medium. Sometime later, a third man C is introduced into the “system”, e.g. by plane crash, drifting ashore, etc., thereby crossing the “boundary” of the system, and triggering, via sunlight, collision theory, and activation energy barrier crossing, new system reactions, after which, given time, the reactive system transforms into the “final state” (or end state), with new final state bonds and dynamics. |
Libb Thims' "island example" section, from his Human Chemistry (2007), which he had originally discussed earlier in 2005 with Georgi Gladyshev. |
“Thermodynamics usually considers a single physical or chemical system in a passive environment. In contrast to that, the environment in which the social objects exist is always an active one. Any social entity, whether an individual or an association of any grade, from a small group to a nation, always maintains more or less tight interaction with other entities of a similar type. The model of Robinson Crusoe, who was removed from a society and placed on a desert island, is quite inadequate in this respect.”— Octavian Ksenzhek (2007), Money, Virtual Energy: Economy through the Prism of Thermodynamics [4]
A cartoon version of the island model, where one man is stranded on an island with seven voluptuous women, showing him “exhausted” from having to satisfy so many women, that when a new man enters the island, the stranded man exclaims “thank goodness, a relief man!” |
“Taking the whole earth instead of this island, emigration would of course be excluded; and supposing the present population equal to a thousand millions, the human species would increase as the numbers 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, and subsistence as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. In two centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to 9; in three centuries as 4096 to 13, and in two thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable. In this supposition no limits whatever are placed to the produce of the earth. It may increase for ever, and be greater than any assignable quantity; yet still the power of population being in every period so much superior, the increase of the human species can only be kept down to the level of the means of subsistence by the constant operation of the strong law of necessity acting as a check upon the greater power.”— Thomas Malthus (1798), An Essay on the Principle of Population (pg. 8)