The social sciences and humanities are fragmented into specialized areas, each with their own parlance and procedures. This hinders information sharing and the growth of a coherent body of knowledge. Modeling and simulation can be the scientific lingua franca, or shared technical language, that can unite, integrate, and relate relevant parts of these diverse disciplines.

Models are well established in the scientific community as mediators, contributors, and enablers of scientific knowledge. We propose a potentially revolutionary linkage between social sciences, humanities and computer simulation, forging what we call “human simulation.” We explore three facets of human simulation, namely: (1) the simulation of humans, (2) the design of simulations for human use, and (3) simulations that include humans as well as simulated agents among the actors. We describe the potential of human simulation using several illuminating examples. We also discuss computational, epistemological, and hermeneutical challenges constraining the use of human simulation.

社会科学和人文学科分为专业领域，每个领域都有自己的说法和程序。这阻碍了信息共享和连贯的知识体系的增长。建模和仿真可以是科学语言，也可以是共享的技术语言，可以团结，整合和关联这些不同学科的相关部分。

在科学界，作为科学知识的中介者，贡献者和推动者，模型已经很完善。我们建议在社会科学，人文科学与计算机仿真之间建立潜在的革命性联系，以建立我们所谓的“人类仿真”。我们探索了人类模拟的三个方面，即：（1）人类模拟，（2）人类使用模拟的设计，以及（3）包括人类以及参与者之间的模拟主体的模拟。我们使用几个启发性的例子来描述人类模拟的潜力。我们还将讨论计算，认识论和解释学方面的挑战，这些挑战限制了人类模拟的使用。