Why is It Possible to Find Meaning in Humankind’s History?

Abstract

Yury Tomashevich

This paper answers a narrow, quantitative question: Is there meaning in humankind’s history, meaning which can be measured and verified by independent researchers, and why is it possible to find that meaning? A brief critical review of a 'seach for meaning in history' shows that there are only a few twentieth-century or twenty-first-century papers discussing quantitative meaning in humankind’s history. The authors of those papers were using traditional history, history of events, which prevented them from getting a suitable dataset needed for finding high-resolution quantitative meaning in humankind’s history. That review was a pivot away from the history of events to something else. This paper explains that deep-level history, which is not a history of events, exists. The methodology of using deep-level history to build a manageable dataset for quantifying humankind’s history was explained. A possible area of future research is suggested.

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