Quote:
Originally Posted by EatingPie
On calling psychohistory "fantasy." While its origins may be, Asimov certainly dealt with it in a "scientific" matter. You'd be pretty hard pressed to call Foundation a book of Fantasy just because of psychohistory.
-Pie
|
I think my post was the one you're referring to, and I didn't call Psychohisory "fantasy". Psychohistory was portrayed as an application of sophisticated mathematics, manipulating variables to predict broad trends and likely conclusions. That's firmly science, even if the science employed is something we haven't achieved yet.
I *did* call predictions based on Vedic teachings fantasy. The predictions may be valid, though I doubt it, but from where I sit, if it can't be treated mathematically, whatever it may be, it's
not science.
______
Dennis