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with a bit of humility
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as to what psychologists know and don't know.
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So, the idea behind a lot of psychology --
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particularly a lot of neuroscience
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and cognitive psychology --
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is to treat the mind as an information processor,
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as an elaborate computer.
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And So, we study different problems
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like recognizing faces or language
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or motor control or logic.
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The strategy then often is to figure out how,
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what sort of program can solve these problems