The abstract from this article:
"Neuroscience needs behavior. However, it is daunting to render the
behavior of organisms intelligible without suppressing most, if not all,
references to life. When animals are treated as passive
stimulus-response, disembodied and identical machines, the life of
behavior perishes. Here, we distill three biological principles
(materiality, agency, and historicity), spell out their consequences for
the study of animal behavior, and illustrate them with various examples
from the literature. We propose to put behavior back into context, with
the brain in a species-typical body and with the animal’s body situated
in the world; stamp Newtonian time with nested ontogenetic and
phylogenetic processes that give rise to individuals with their own
histories; and supplement linear cause-and-effect chains and information
processing with circular loops of purpose and meaning. We believe that
conceiving behavior in these ways is imperative for neuroscience."
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