Coherent Chaos In Multiple Timelines

Laurinda compares Gaia to God. She means "God" as presented in Augustianian theodicy. If I did accept a theistic premise, then I would also accept John Hick's universalist conclusion.

Gaia plays and replays emulations because she might find a few general laws about chaotic humanity:

"'...chaotic systems do have structures, attractors, constraints.'"
-Genesis, Part Two, VII, 9, p. 194.

"'...chaos itself has a certain basic coherence. Things have a way of recurring. People do.'"
-Poul Anderson, The Shield Of Time (New York, 1991), Part Three, p. 136.

Unable to replay timelines, Guion can only:

"'...study those who have been part of great events. They may again, whether or not our extant records know anything of it.'" (ibid.)

The Time Patrol knows all human history, both past and future, yet something might happen that they do not expect. How scary is that?