My position is that Seldon didn't found a proper science but rather a highly effective ideology. It was a self-fulfilling prophesy: by convincing people it was true, it became true.
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If we take serious Imre Lakatos's view of science as a productive research project, then, no, Seldon's psychohistory is not a science.
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it’s perfected marxism
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Yeah I don’t know what else you could call it.
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Ultimate liberal pseudoscience.
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We already had these debates in the transition from the mid 20th century to the late 20th century, from American High Modernism, totalizing midcentury Systems Theory, to Postmodern pessimism. (Not an accident the company that built this chose that to be a flagship narrative work)pic.twitter.com/4sXHgYqTJ8
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it’s an art and a practice
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