Comment Re:Not Psychohistory (Score 1) 241
Just reading the Foundation novels for the first time(through Foundation and Foundation & Empire so far) and I was definitely thinking about psychohistory even before reading that last sentence. While psychohistory was not about simulations, the point of these simulations is to better understand how all of these variables interact with eachother and the eventual outcomes. It's this understanding that could lead to the mathematical model of psychohistory. Not saying it will, obviously, but the similarity is there.