5. If Love is Blind
Liberally speaking we shall never be able to define what love is without being slipped
into the reduction of one of important concept in human societies. Love may arise from the
socially constructed values - like most liberal’s believed - but may also arise from biological
(or chemical?) processes among couples (Marazziti, 2004). Probably the concept of love is
the place of the complexity as we talked about the human sexual selection.
In our previous experiments, as observer we feel to know why someone loves
another, why someone wants to marry and start a family with another, as we reduce a lot of
semantic thoughts on love. This section, eventually, wants to see what happens in our
artificial society as we let agents chooses her/his spouses irrationally beside those with
fuzzifications of some common sexual qualities.
While the other micro-properties are just similar with those elaborated in the
generic computational model (Situngkir, 2007), we let agents to choose his/her mates in a
particularly small probability ( p ≈ 0.1) and see the dynamics of the macro properties. To our
interest, the growth of the population becomes exceedingly higher as the iteration goes.
This is showed in figure 6. There has been classical understanding of Malthusian economics
that the population growth in approximately exponential function if there is no any social
mechanisms to reduce the rate of birth. In the other hand, some societies tend to see the
proper and improperness in the marital status of adult males (and frequently females). In
some cases, this becomes the source of the irrationality of the mating couple in our
experiments. Eventually, as there is no birth control mechanisms included, even a very small
probability of this may eventually lead to the exponential population growth.
Apparently, in our simulation of this particular scenario we do not put into account
the limits of environmental factors e.g.: the availability of resources (for example food, jobs,
lands for housing, etc.) that sometimes become natural things as the proponents for birth
control. For instance, the use of contraception is not the only thing to reduce the population
growth but agent’s realization on career, the financial constraints, etc. and many other
social, economic, and cultural related things must be put into account as a social actor start
to establish family especially deciding to have children.
6. Discussions & Closing Notes
The fuzziness of human male and female relationship has been discussed in Situngkir
(2007) and the paper is a report on findings and conducted experiments by using the
proposed model. We do some experiments by using scenarios to observe what would
emerge from specific micro-states in the level of agency. The primary point of the paper is
to show that by using the computational model of artificial societies we could easily observe
the relations between different levels of description that is non-linear in its nature. It
becomes possible to relate the population growth, the dynamics of economic welfare, and
so on by adjusting some micro-properties and micro-rules related to sexual selection in
human civilizations. However, in this sense, there are a lot more things could be observed
by using this computational tool in our endeavor understanding the intra-species sexual
selection with those some macro and sophisticated aspects of human culture.
The secondary points are highlighted from the simulations as we employ several
scenarios showed in the paper. The way we discover some economic aspects e.g.: the
power-law distributed of wealth in society, the paradoxical findings on the sacred values of
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