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Abstract
There is an irreducible uncertainty in the prediction of human behavior because the dynamics of the brain, as a self-organizing system consisting of many millions of elements, are inherently indeterminate. Thus the Laplacian ideal of universal laws relating knowable causes to predictable effects cannot be realized in psychology.Entities:
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Year: 1991 PMID: 1784665 DOI: 10.2466/pr0.1991.69.3.771
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Psychol Rep ISSN: 0033-2941