“The aim is to treat history as a “natural” science, using statistical methods, computational simulations and other tools adapted from evolutionary theory, physics and complexity science to understand why things happened the way that they did.” https://theconversation.com/historys-crisis-detectives-how-were-using-maths-and-data-to-reveal-why-societies-collapse-and-clues-about-the-future-218969 #ClimateChange #History #Histodon #Histodons #Society #Science #LongRead #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @science
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Sounds like psychohistory to me.
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] In a good or a bad way?
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Any search for evidence explaining human behavior is good. However, we cannot even predict one individual’s behavior with our current technology. The capability described seems about right for Harry Seldon’s era.