Hari Seldon

I think and have thought since I was 12, that all emotion, all art, all of love can be reduced to Chemistry and Mathematical formulae. We are attracted to potential mates based on visual comparison of the form to the Divine Integer. Once a potential mate has been selected visually, we further winnow the choices down by smelling pheremones. I have actually become aware of rejecting possible mates because they just didn't 'smell' right to me. It's basically the same as the smell of your home. Others walk in the door and notice 'odors,' good or bad. You walk into your own home and unless something has changed, rather than consciously 'smelling,' you feel relaxed, comforted, safe, because it smells like you. We all smell our children. Underneath it all, we are making sure they give off our own particular 'family' scent. Other people's children don't. Some, like their parents, smell offensive to you, others are compatible. You know that person that you just instinctively know will never be your friend? Yep, pheremonal imbalance to you. And we think we are so far above the other Apes. How about music? Art? They both follow the fibonacci spiral and the divine integer. In fact, everything in our lives can only be pleasing if they fit into a set of rules we aren't even aware that we set. When I read Aasimov's Foundation Trilogy, at 11, I was completely taken by Hari Seldon and the whole idea of Psychohistory. Like Aasimov, I think that the whole of Human existence can be set in Mathematical form and seen/predicted; beginning, middle and end - from individuals, to Societies, to the entire Race's History and Future. At some point, anyway. Of course I loved the whole mathematical puzzles he put into all of his works. The Foundation trilogy and the double-helix quandary had me at my desk with slide-rule and papers for months, off and on, lol.