
A knowledge flow schematic for a generalized department of physicochemical humanities, which takes into account (a) the polymathy degree problem, (b) ChE + H coupling, and (c) the two cultures seed plant planting problem (Winiarski, Henderson, Wilson, and Stewart, etc., all failed, in the long run, to get the multi-generationally primed two cultures department established, i.e. to get the cyclical mechanism running), wherein the top students of the chemical engineering class, in chemical thermodynamics (Gibbs) in particular, teach and work with the top students of the humanities, in the basics of the physicochemical sciences, as applicable to the deeper visceral human questions, in respect to getting an early age 20s “systematic conception of it all” (Adams [1863], age 25), therein creating a two cultures synergy growth cybernetic feedback effect.

A knowledge flow schematic for a generalized department of physicochemical humanities, which takes into account (a) the polymathy degree problem, (b) ChE + H coupling, and (c) the two cultures seed plant planting problem (Winiarski, Henderson, Wilson, and Stewart, etc., all failed, in the long run, to get the multi-generationally primed two cultures department established, i.e. to get the cyclical mechanism running), wherein the top students of the chemical engineering class, in chemical thermodynamics (Gibbs) in particular, teach and work with the top students of the humanities, in the basics of the physicochemical sciences, as applicable to the deeper visceral human questions, in respect to getting an early age 20s “systematic conception of it all” (Adams [1863], age 25), therein creating a two cultures synergy growth cybernetic feedback effect.

In education, physicochemical humanities (course outline) is a outline for a proposed "chair" (see: Nightingale Chair of Social Physics), undergraduate course, graduate program in physicochemical humanities (PCH), a general assimilation of all two cultures namesake subjects; a 21st realization, so to say, of John Q. Stewart's once kindled 1950s Princeton Department of Social Physics.

Overview | Undergraduate
The following is draft outline the necessary components of a general one-semester course on a physics + chemistry based general humanities course; those shown bolded are actual historically-famous college courses taught: [1]

1. Sociology
● Physicochemical sociology | Beg (1987)
● Sociology 23 | Henderson (1940)
● Social mechanics | Winiarski (1894)
2. Economics
● Mathematical economics | Wilson (1935)
● Socio-economic thermodynamics | Mimkes (2006)
3. History
● History of materialism | Lange (1865)
● Physico-chemical social dynamics | Adams (1910)
● History of mechanistic, physical, chemical, and thermodynamical sociology | Sorokin (1928)
● Princeton school of social physics | Stewart (1955)
● Socio-economic thermodynamics | Wallace (2009)
4. Philosophy
● Forces & elements philosophy | Empedocles (450BC)
● Thing philosophy | Lucretius (75BC)
● Human chemical theory | Goethe (1809)
● Thermochemical relationship model | Hirata (2000)
5. Politics
● Molecular political economics | Pareto (1897)
● Chemical thermodynamics of freedom and security | Rossini (1971)
6. Government
● Newtonian government | Madison (1787)
● Euclidean government | Lincoln (1865)
● Darwinian government | Wilson (1912)
● Universal principles government | Obama (2006)
7. Psychology
● Scientific psychology | Freud (1895)
● Flow theory | Csikszentmihalyi (1990)
8. Literature
● Literary realism | Realistic school (Ѻ)
9. Anthropology
● Cultural evolution energetics | White (1943)
10. Religion | Mythology
● Religio-mythology scholars (120+)
● Atheism | Nietzsche (1888)
● Tensions | Rossini debate (2006)
● Metaphysics | Teilhard (1937)

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Israeli chemical engineer Alec Groysman at the the 2011 Generative Art Conference, Rome, calling for a chemical engineering based physicochemical humanities (PCH) like course, anchored in Goethe-Thims modeled humanities. [2]

Israeli chemical engineer Alec Groysman at the the 2011 Generative Art Conference, Rome, calling for a chemical engineering based physicochemical humanities (PCH) like course, anchored in Goethe-Thims modeled humanities. [2]

Conference | Calls
The following are recent conference calls for a physicochemical humanities (PCH) course:

“Dobereiner helped in refining Russian platinum, discovered catalysis, and reported his work to Goethe. The latter’s novella Elective Affinities, a work of art, gave impulse to a new scientific field named ‘human chemistry’ (Thims, 2007). In the exact sciences there are quantitative measures of estimation of each value: mass, length, force, energy. In the humanistic disciplines (history, philosophy, psychology) as well as art there are no quantitative criteria. This is similar to the question of how to measure beauty, love, friendship, democracy? The function named Gibbs energy defines ‘love’ between substances [and] people ... and is similar to Hamlet’s ‘to be or not to be?’ of William Shakespeare.”
— Alec Groysman (2011), 14th Generative Art Conference, Rome [2]

“In contrast, other fields, such as biology, economics, health sciences, among other, have found practical applications of complexity in their disciplines. The purpose of this work is to show some possible applications of complexity, not necessarily in the traditional field of chemical engineering, but where clearly chemical engineers can uniquely contribute due to our formation and basic elements of thermodynamics, and processes analysis, compared to other disciplines, in matters of study that are not the classical chemical engineering applications, but where their application is necessary, even not being chemical processes.”
— Jaime Aguilar-Arias (2014), 20th Brazilian Congress of Chemical Engineering, Brazil [3]

Aguilar-Arias, in his presentation, to note, cites, first and foremost, Venezuelan-born English chemical engineer Erich Muller, his famous “Human Societies: a Curious Application of Thermodynamics” (1997), and his human-as-molecules classroom stylized approach to teaching chemical engineering students how chemical thermodynamics applies socially. He then discusses how this new field is fermenting by new emerging journals, such as the Journal of Human Thermodynamics, in particular, via articles such as Iranian-born American chemical engineer Mohsen Mohsen-Nia's 2013 “Social Equation of State”, which he compares to earlier work by English mechanical engineer John Bryant (2011)

The establishment of such a PCH stylized course, as outlined herein, will be the focus of part of the 2016 BPE 2016 meeting, whereat a number of leading social Newtons, e.g. Jurgen Mimkes (SNE:1), will be present.


A listing of the graduate students Libb Thims, since 2009, has mentored and or given guidance to in their graduate work (see: Thims students).

A listing of the graduate students Libb Thims, since 2009, has mentored and or given guidance to in their graduate work (see: Thims students).

Overview | Graduate
The outline for the "graduate program" for physicochemical humanities is a work-in-progress.

In the following representative examples list, of physicochemical humanities like thesises or dissertations, is the MS physics + economics thesis by Puerto Rican child prodigy Luis Arroyo, completed at age 20, sent to Thims in early 2016, by Ram Poudel, that would have been a good match with a physicochemical humanities graduate program, had such existed in America:

● Adler, Jeremy. (1978). “Goethe's use of Chemical Theory in his Elective Affinities” (Ѻ), PhD dissertation, advisor: Claus Bock, Westfield College London.

● Arroyo-Colon, Luis B. (2010). “A Thermal Model of the Economy” (abs) (pdf) (79-pgs), Master’s Thesis (in physics), University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez.

What is apparent, from the above list, is the salient fact that perhaps one of the most illuminating PhD dissertations ever produced, namely that of Jeremy Adler, guided by Claus Bock, in respect to physicochemical humanities, was a product of an admixture of the German and science history departments.

Shown adjacent is a listing of the graduate students (see: Thims students) Thims, since 2009, has mentored and or given guidance to in their graduate work, purely as a hobby.

Anchor | Point
A key aspect of such a course, to been keenly aware of, as history has shown, is that a necessary imperative of such a course is that the course be “anchored” into the core department that teaches the laws of nature, the first and second law of thermodynamics, as applied to surface-attached chemically reactive systems, i.e. human social systems, Gibbs-Lewis chemical thermodynamics in particular; the subject of which taught in chemical engineering, primarily, and the physicochemical department secondly, so that the gears of the “polymathy degree problem” keep turning, generationally, or else such efforts will not be fortuitous. This is evidenced by failed attempts of chemical engineer James Coleman going into sociology, physicist Paul Samuelson going into economics, physical chemist Lawrence Henderson going into sociology, physicist John Q. Stewart going into sociology and demographics, among others, WITHOUT founding an actual "established" long-term department, e.g. once Henderson was gone, the famous "Harvard Pareto circle", the educated early 20th century person's alternative to Marxism, ceased to be, once Stewart was gone, the Princeton Department of Social Physics atrophied into but a present historical footnote, once Samuelson was gone, there was no longer anyone to send their entropy economics theories to, and so on. The best students, in other words, i.e. the top of the class of the chemical thermodynamics classes, have to replenish teachers of each physiochemical humanities department, as generations the centuries pass, so that students becoming adults get a "systematic conception of it all" as Henry Adams longed for, or else the tree of knowledge won't grow.

Quotes
The following are related quotes:

“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
— Greek proverb (c.300BC) (Ѻ)

“I’ve got a MA in chemistry—but your book [Human Chemistry]—it really affected me. I’ve been prompting it in our university [Technion] in the last couple of years—and got great responds from some top researchers—I think you’re doing excellent work!”
— Ofer Po (2013), Facebook messaging, Dec 24

References
1. (a) Thims, Libb. (2016). “Mental Note”, done by memory, made day after completing assignment of 10 ISBNs to the 10-volume Hmolpedia print set; trigger into note jotting stage, amid attempt to categorize (in the “libraries” article) the newly-found factoid that James Madison had a 4,000 book personal library, found amid a reading Charles Pierce’s Idiot America (2009), which insinuates the general assertion that 50 percent of America believe, as touched on in the 2005 Esquire pitch article, to editor Mark Warren, of “Dinosaurs and Saddles” (turned 2012 article: “The Consequences of Believing Nonsense”), sparked into the idea stage based on the New York Times article on the Ken Ham Creation Museum, that “Thomas Jefferson dinosaurs”, 9:39AM CST Mar 8.
(b) Note: Thims, prior to and or amid starting this page, per 2014 influence the discovery of Mirza Beg and his 1987 physicochemical sociology textbook, had contemplated ‘only’ starting a physicochemical sociology course anchored in a chemical thermodynamics and or physical chemistry department; then branching from there once established. Thims invite to PBE 2016, on “Regarding Definitions” in the biophysical economics, his sixth university lecture (since 2010), seems to push towards the inescapable realization that a bulk course may be the only way to go, correctly speaking.
(c) Pierce, Charles P. (2009). Idiot America: How Stupidity became a Virtue in the Land of the Free (pitch, pg. 301). Anchor Books.
(d) Ham, Ken. (2009). “Dinosaurs with Saddles” (Ѻ), AnswersInGenesis.org, Jun 24.
(e) Pierce, Charles. (2012). “The Consequences of Believing Nonsense” (Ѻ), Esquire, Jun 22.
2. Groysman, Alec. (2011). “Use of Art Media in Engineering and Scientific Education” (§3.4: Human Chemistry), Generative Art Conference, XIV, Roma, Italy, Dec 5-7.
3. Aguilar-Arias, Jaime L. (2014). “Chemical Engineering and Complexity, an Undissipated Structure … Yet”, 20th Brazilian Congress of Chemical Engineering (Congresso Brasilerro de Enenharia Quimica, XX) (pdf), Florianopolis, Brazil, Oct 19-22.