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1 The main things

1.1 Symbols are created for modeling human events.

1.2 The main symbol for Humanistman consists of a human stick figure enclosed by a square enclosed by a circle. I also have a video file.

1.3 The stick figure is a human. The name of this symbol is Individual Human or Individual for short.

1.4 The square represents a constraint. Humans tend to organize themselves and group together. These groups can support cooperative action by the humans within the group. Examples are families, tribes, clubs, companies, nations, and laws. Humans prefer to have some structure and constraints to operate within. The square represents logical and physical constraints. Examples of physical constraints are building, land and earth. The name of this symbol is Group. It synonym is Constraint.

1.5 The circle represents everything other than human. This includes the planet earth and everything on it (other than humans), satellites, the moon, sun, other planets and everything else. The name of this symbol is Planet.

1.6 It is my intent to use symbols to do high level modeling of human situations to look for patterns and groupings for human behavior at an abstracted high level.

Individual human, Group Constraint, Everything else in the universe except for humans

2 Action or Event

2.1 Other symbols are used help model Human behavior.

2.2 There are three objects – Individual, Group and Planet.

2.3 When an action or event takes place this is represented by an arrow.

2.4 An arrow is usually positioned between two objects but it can also start and end at the same object.

3 Conventions, Notations and Special symbols

3.1 Symbols are arranged left to right and top to bottom.

3.2 Abstraction is represented high to low – hierarchically – top to bottom and left to right.

3.3 NOT is represented by a slanted line preceding the symbol.

3.4 Names are placed above the symbol.

3.5 Numbers are used below symbols to indicate the number of objects or events.

3.6 Sufficient certainty is represented by solid lined objects.

3.7 Hypothesis, insufficient certainty or unknown is represented by dashed lines (for symbols), ? (for names and numbers)

3.8 Special case symbols for numbers allow for more detailed representations

Table 3.1 Number Special cases

Symbol	Name	Meaning
M	Many	An large number, not infinite
+	Add	The process of adding
?	Unknown	Unable to estimate a number
–	Estimate	Preceding the estimated number

3.8 Special case events allow for more detailed representations

An event that occurs repeatedly over time in a regular or highly predictable way