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To: SunStar
Science fiction has already been there, done that - Dr. Asimov's Harry Selden and his science of "psychohistory":


33 posted on 10/15/2017 10:27:15 AM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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The theory of psychohistory developed by Dr Hari Seldon in Asimov’s Foundation novels had applied only to predicting the behaviors of large populations as a whole. The analogy was where each person was like a gas particle and the theory predicted the behavior of the gas on a macroscopic scale. (Think macroeconomics.)

It could not predict behavior on small scales. (The theory’s predictions got trashed anyway when a Napoleon appeared.)


59 posted on 10/15/2017 12:28:23 PM PDT by Gideon7
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