Comment by lproven
2 days ago
Sounds like you're veering close to psychohistory.
Which could, of course, lead to the mother of all crossover universes, in which R Daneel Olivaw, as the inheritor of Hari Seldon's mission, inspired the Butlerian Jihad...
Psychohistory is about large groups of humans, parallel to thermodynamics. Individuals are treated as purely random, but aggregate properties can be predicted.
Here we're talking about individual behavior: you usually choose chocolate ice cream because you, personally, like chocolate. That allows individual predictions, rather than the aggregate ones of psychohistory.
I'm aware. I think the connection is clear, though, and decided that was enough for a semi-humorous sally.
Psychohistory is the opposite claim.
As I just said...
I'm aware. I think the connection is clear, though, and decided that was enough for a semi-humorous sally.