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BI 119 Henry Yin: The Crisis in Neuroscience

Brain Inspired

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You Don't Need Teleology to Explain Behavior

Everything in the universe can be explained by these simple physical laws, and you don't need teleology to explain behavior. But there is a class of systems called pebac control systems which are an exception. Because at the same time that the imput is affecting the output, the output is also affecting the imput. And because you have these two equations, a things are changing simultaneously, you can't use linear causation to describe the properties of this type of system. So i would say that, ye, in that sense, aristotle was right. There's final cause. As long as you talki botral system.

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