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Indeterminacy in brain and behavior.

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  • 1Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA. glimcher@cns.nyu.edu

Annual Review of Psychology
|February 16, 2005
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Modern science aims to reduce uncertainty, but recent behavioral science advances question deterministic assumptions. Researchers are now exploring indeterminacy in human and animal behavior.

Area of Science:

  • Behavioral Science
  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Social Science

Background:

  • The Enlightenment established empirical inquiry and uncertainty reduction as central scientific goals.
  • Modern behavioral science largely adopted a deterministic worldview, influencing experimental design.
  • Quantum physics introduced indeterminacy, challenging classical determinism.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the historical reliance on determinism in behavioral science.
  • To explore recent challenges to the deterministic assumption in psychology, social sciences, and neuroscience.
  • To assess the emerging engagement with concepts of indeterminacy within behavioral science.

Main Methods:

  • Historical analysis of scientific paradigms.

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  • Review of recent advances in psychological, social, and neural sciences.
  • Conceptual exploration of determinism versus indeterminacy in behavior.

    • Main Results:

    • Classical behaviorism was explicitly founded on a deterministic worldview.
    • Advances in psychological, social, and neural sciences are prompting a re-evaluation of behavioral determinism.
    • Behavioral scientists are beginning to grapple with issues of indeterminacy.

    Conclusions:

    • The assumption of fundamental determinism in all behavior is being questioned.
    • The generative mechanisms of behavior may require a philosophically indeterminate approach.
    • Behavioral science is entering a new phase of inquiry, akin to physics' engagement with indeterminacy.