Complex adaptation
Civilizational outcomes emerge from heterogeneous actors, networks, institutions, environments, and feedback under incomplete information and unequal power.
FRAMEWORK 1.0 / Framework summary
Framework summary
The field definition, core propositions, research architecture, and epistemic status in one reference page.
Field definition
Civilization Science is the proposed interdisciplinary study of the formation, functioning, stability, transformation, and long-term continuity of large-scale human systems as complex adaptive systems.
Its research object is not a civilization ranking or a deterministic theory of rise and fall. It is a bounded inquiry into observable relations among cooperation, trust-legitimacy, usable capacity, entropy pressure, institutions, networks, technologies, ecosystems, meaning, and continuity.
Core propositions
Complementarity hypothesis
Cooperation, trust-legitimacy, and usable capacity may interact multiplicatively, while entropy pressure may reduce bounded stability.
Dynamic separation
The measurement function S = G(x) must be separated from the transition law xₜ₊₁ = F(xₜ,…).
Multilevel measurement
The full ontology is reduced to an identifiable state vector through an explicit, validated dimensional-reduction protocol.
Conditional application
Civilization engineering is limited to reversible, evidence-based, rights-preserving interventions with independent review.
Architecture
Core theory
Definitions, boundaries, ontology, levels, equations, variables, dynamics, mechanisms, measurement, and falsifiability.
Six pillars
Foundations; civilizational physics; measurement and warning; life continuity; human-agent coordination; meaning, contribution, and value.
Research program
Forty volumes: seven foundational works reported as formed and thirty-three open research volumes.
Applied programs
CCWS, CPC, Meaning Economics, AI Agent Economics, Life-Value Continuity, EverLifeX, and GEO remain separately testable.
Canonical relation and status
S = (C × Lₑ × Eₙ) / E