Holarchic Psychoinformatics: A Mathematical Ontology for General and Psychological Realities

摘要

This article builds upon a formal person-situation framework by offering formalisms for its subcomponents, as well as for reality more generally. More specifically, a system of mathematical formalisms is offered relating the following constructs: holarchy, reality, and psychological reality. Psychological reality is offered a portmanteau in the neologism, 'psychologically'. Psycho-logicality denotes mind and behavior, both of which are subcomponents of Sood's [20] person-situation formula. The mathematics offered is woven into a broader, subjective-objective ontology that is required for any truly representative virtual world. The result from above, when synthesized with informatics, is a novel 'holarchic informatics' and more specific holarchic psychoinformatics (HPI). Holarchic psychoinformatics is related with Sood's psychoinformatic complexity (PIC) paradigm. The aim of this article is to build upon 'third force'—i.e., existential-humanistic (E-H)—psychology. We depart from more traditional approaches in defining E-H psychology as the study of the existence of human minds and behaviors as emergent, interdependent properties of people's interactions with situations. This definition results from the enactive person-situation framework as situated within PIC.