IF YOU GOOGLE “THE SCIENCE OF VOLITION,” you’ll get something like this: “The ‘science of volition’ is an area of psychology and neuroscience that studies the cognitive processes behind voluntary action.” We use the term to apply to a different field of study, one pioneered by astrophysicist Andrew J. Galambos under the name Volitional Science, which he defined as follows: “Volitional science is a series of organized, observationally corroborable ideas about how human beings make choices and the consequences thereof. . . . (It) is derived exclusively through the use of the scientific method, as in physics.”1
