Reflexivity Theory

I have an obsession with how humans behave especially in large groups. Philophical economics is my forte. I do not indulge in mathematical models or encourage the use of mathematics but my theories rest on more qualitative analysis.

I have been listening to George Soros recently, and i came across his reflexivity theory which has has interesting inductive explanations for human behavior. Mathematical models fail to capture human behavior because human behavior is not similar to particle behavior. Particles do not change their behavior when uncertainty is measured using Heisenberg's uncertainty principal, meanwhile if the same principal is applied to humans then humans would react to that model and would adjust their behavior in an unpredictable way which would act as positive feedback for the model. An example would be if a stock brokerage model predicts a looming crash then the stock broker would adjust his behavior and sell his stocks, this would in turn act as a positive feedback which would reinforce the models prediction and blowup the error because the model itself would not adjust according to the human behavior. The model would only be reliable as long as the particles behavior is not changed by the output of the model. A model wouldn't have predictive powers as it would always be one step behind the human ability to change their behavior, any prediction would be rendered useless as soon as that prediction is made due to the reflexive nature of the object which is under study.

Nassim Taleb's randomness principal states that humans behavior is pure randomness, but it fails to capture "why" this randomness cannot be captured in a model.

Amaurosis Fugax

This is the first time that i have resolutely planned to start blogging. I like to write and i have a lot of deep insights on life, philosophy, literature, psychology etc safely stored in word files. Most of these insights have been blatantly plagiarised, although the most creative of the written text in those documents is to an extent an original contribution, at least in a relativistic way.

I chose an esoteric name for this blog, simply to convey that this blog would inherently be esoteric in nature and only a few individuals would ever be able to think the same thoughts when i would be writing my thoughts down. "Amaurosis" means dark or opaque and "Fugax" means fleeting, and i chose this title simply to store and convey the most fleeting of my thoughts on some of the most opaque or hard to understand ideas on almost anything. I will not limit my topics on which to write, topics could be as diverse as religious topics to athiestic and philosophic to poetry and love.

I hope that people would be able to contribute or point me in better directions in my quest for knowledge.