ON CHAOTIC BEHAVIOR

Neuringer and Voss (1993) described experiments in which humans genera ted response sequences that approximated features of chaotic sequences generated by iterating the logistic difference equation. Although thi s demonstration is very interesting, we argue that the logistic equati on is not a convincing model of their subjects' behavior. Further, alt hough any chaotic behavior is in a narrow sense deterministic, there i s reason to believe that the prevalence of chaos actually undermines a more globally deterministic view of the world.