SYSTEMIC CENTRODYNAMIC MECHANICS (SCM)
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Systemic Centrodynamic Mechanics (SCM) is proposed as a systems-theoretic framework for examining how internal states, behavioral outputs, interpersonal interactions, feedback processes, contextual constraints, and social structures jointly shape the dynamics of human relationships. Its central research problem is whether a compact functional construct, provisionally called the Primary Systemic Actuator (PSA), can explain behavioral initiation, persistence, regulation, and withdrawal beyond what is explained by established constructs and competing models.
SCM begins from the observation that dyadic interactions may generate feedback: the behavior of one individual can alter the subsequent state and behavior of another, whose response can in turn affect the first individual. Such interactions may be reinforcing, balancing, delayed, asymmetric, nonlinear, or unstable. The framework also retains subjective and sociological variables, including love, altruistic motivation, self-interest, sacrifice, satisfaction, trust, expectations, perceived duty, social norms, and concern for another person's welfare. These variables are treated as distinct constructs requiring operational definitions and empirical measurement, not as interchangeable forms of physical energy.
The manuscript develops a seven-layer research architecture spanning system boundaries, measurement, individual behavioral regulation, dyadic dynamics, nonlinear transitions, network-level emergence, and empirical validation. It specifies candidate state-space equations, feedback models, stability conditions, decision models, and network extensions. These formulations are hypotheses and analytical tools, not evidence that a universal return mechanism exists. Conservation of energy is not used to infer psychological reciprocity, and the existence of feedback is not assumed to imply positive-sum outcomes.
The proposed framework is scientifically assessable only if its constructs are identifiable, its parameters estimable, its predictions distinguishable from those of competing explanations, and its claims open to falsification. No empirical dataset is analyzed in this conceptual manuscript; therefore, all substantive mechanisms remain provisional pending operationalization, preregistered tests, and replication.
Keywords: Systemic Centrodynamic Mechanics; systems theory; cybernetics; feedback; dynamical systems; social exchange; altruism; self-interest; behavioral regulation; social networks; stability; falsifiability.
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