Smith D D
Bishop's University, Qué., Canada.
Psychol Rep. 1991 Dec;69(3 Pt 1):771-7. doi: 10.2466/pr0.1991.69.3.771.
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.
