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What we think determines what happens to us. Therefore, if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
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Information processing theory describes the human mind as a computer in which all information is recorded, encoded, and stored.
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The human mind works in two ways: Consciously and unconsciously. It’s the unconscious mind that’s the most fascinating, as much of what you do every day is automatically carried out by it. Thinking of the term “unconscious” almost instantly brings the th...
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The computational model of the mind started from the theory of Noam Chomsky. According to him, there are rules that explain the ease with which we all learn language from a young age. Those rules would start from our natural and automatic ability to recognize sym...
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One more hypothesis about how the human mind works is that which Steven Pinker exposed in his book and which has a long tradition in psychology. According to the modular theory, the mind is organized into modules, in different specialized structures.
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The mind is the entity that carries out all our psychological processes . In it flow complex and wonderful motivational, emotional, behavioral, and perceptual systems. It’s important to clarify that the mind and brain aren’t the same entity. The first wouldn’t be able to exist wi...
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