Psychohistory and the Mathematics of Civilizational Fate: When Science Fiction Becomes Social Science

Psychohistory and the Mathematics of Civilizational Fate: When Science Fiction Becomes Social Science

The Dream of Mathematical Prophecy In Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series, the mathematician Hari Seldon develops psychohistory—a mathematical sociology capable of predicting the future of large populations with statistical certainty. This fictional science,...
The Universe 25 Experiment and the Psychological Stress of Modern Civilization

The Universe 25 Experiment and the Psychological Stress of Modern Civilization

What Was The Universe 25 Experiment? In the 1970s, ethologist John B. Calhoun conducted a famous experiment called Universe 25. In the study, a colony of mice was placed in a utopian enclosure called a “mouse paradise” with unlimited access to food, water,...