Comment by loceng

Prophecy generally falls in line with "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

If you have enough real-world data, and learned the patterns of history, along with fundamental principles that seem to be precursors or prerequisites to change, then a prophet is more or less someone with a honed and an extended-expanded open mind neural network compared to most.

P.S. It's why it's a really good idea to allow immigrants fleeing from communist countries, as they'll be best and perhaps first to detect and sound the alarm bells if fascism patterns begin to emerge in their new country.