In an era marked by accelerating change and destabilisation of many structures and regularities in almost all domains, it becomes crucial to understand the source and nature of the unfolding crises and their relation to social dynamics. In this paper the evolution of social dynamics is investigated not on the basis of observable structures, but the mental model of human agents, that is, how they both perceive and conceive of the world and their relation to it. For this purpose, the paper reaches out to Ancient Mesopotamia, where the oldest written documents provide evidence about the evolution of the mental model as it has been preserved in the form of myths. Some key notions filtered out from some important myths are used to analyse the interaction between the mental model and social dynamics. Finally, some criteria and directions are suggested for the present-day crises.

在一个几乎所有领域的许多结构和规律都在加速变化和不稳定的时代，了解正在发生的危机的根源和性质及其与社会动态的关系变得至关重要。在本文中，社会动态的演变不是基于可观察的结构，而是基于人类代理的心理模型，即他们如何感知和构想世界及其与世界的关系。为此，这篇论文涉及古代美索不达米亚，那里最古老的书面文件提供了关于心智模式演变的证据，因为它以神话的形式保存下来。从一些重要的神话中过滤出来的一些关键概念被用来分析心理模型和社会动态之间的相互作用。最后，