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Our essays about psychohistory: what it might look like, what it could achieve, and what its limitations would be

Unabomber's Anti-Tech Revolution: A Critical Analysis (1/2)

Unabomber's Anti-Tech Revolution: A Critical Analysis (1/2)

Ted Kaczynski's "Anti-Tech Revolution" challenges the possibility of rationally controlling societal evolution, offering a thought-provoking critique of the complexities and chaotic nature of modern society.

Exploring the Analogies Between Psychohistory and Cosmology

Exploring the Analogies Between Psychohistory and Cosmology

Exploring the intriguing parallels between psychohistory and cosmology, this post delves into how social groups interact, the constraints of human nature on societal dynamics, and the idea of memes as the fundamental units of cultural exchange.

Can History Become a True Science?

Can History Become a True Science?

What do we struggle to achieve by building psychohistory?

Methodological Challenges of Psychohistory and Reflections on Aliens

Methodological Challenges of Psychohistory and Reflections on Aliens

Psychohistory faces same challenges as cosmology and evolution theory

Two Approaches to Build Psychohistory

Two Approaches to Build Psychohistory

Psychohistory is the science of large human collectives, and in this sense, it can be compared to thermodynamics, which describes the behavior of gases consisting of a vast number of individual atoms. Following this analogy, two possible approaches to constructing this science can be assumed. The first, microscopic, or down-top

What is Psychohistory?

What is Psychohistory?

PSYCHOHISTORY - ... Gaal Dornick, using nonmathematical concepts, has defined psychohistory to be that branch of mathematics which deals with the reactions of human conglomerates to fixed social and economic stimuli...